As an interdisciplinary study, this book pinpoints intertextual and intercultural cross-fertilization between American literature and Iranian cinema, addressing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the latter to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen.

Morteza Yazdanjoo is a postdoctoral researcher in English literature and Cultural Studies at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) and university lecturer. He teaches a variety of courses on English literature and Cultural Studies and is interested in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on how cinematic appropriations of world literature by Iranian cinema contribute to reflect sociocultural outlooks, values, and challenges in contemporary Iran.

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Adaptation Studies, Cultural Materialism, and Cultural Studies: An Intertextual Dialogue

3.Narrative Trajectories of National Identity in Iranian Cinema: A Historical Long Shot

4.Performing the Poetics of the Iranian Dream on the Silver Screen: Dariush Mehrjui's Appropriation of Saul Bellow's Herzog and J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey

5. Watching Tennessee Williams in Iran: The Sanctity of Family Reconstituted

6. Birth of a Salesman: Revisiting Willy Loman in Tehran

7. Conclusion

Index