The Gaze and a Sufi Ethics of Vision in Majidi’s The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, and the Real
In his 2005 film The Willow Tree (Bīd-i Majnūn), Majid Majidi offers a complex moral commentary on the faculty of sight. To do so, the filmmaker draws from Sufi theories of gazing, in which desire must be for ultimate meaning (maʿnā), as conveyed through the vehicle of perceivable form (ṣūra), a dis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-35 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Beed-e majnoon
/ Blindness
/ Sight
/ Gaze
/ Voyeurism
/ Ethical conflict
/ Sufism
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa |
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Iranian Cinema
B Islamic Ethics B Majidi B Lacan B Feminist film theory B Sufism |
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