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zahra-khosroshahi

Khosroshahi, Zahra

University of Toronto
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z.khosroshahi@utoronto.ca

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Zahra Khosroshahi is a lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph “Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance” (Edinburgh University Press). Previously, she was an SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and completed her doctorate at the University of East Anglia. Her PhD research focused on prominent Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad’s cinema. As well, Zahra is the co-founder of Thousand&One: an enterprise that supports women of colour in the workplace.

University of Toronto

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Supervisor:
Sara Saljoughi


My post-doctoral research at the University of Toronto with the support of the SSHRC, under the supervision of Dr Sara Saljoughi investigates the work of Iranian filmmakers, as they persist, resist and fight against systems of power both at home and abroad. This research aims to highlight the importance of cinema as a platform for social and political change in the country. I argue that in a media landscape restricted by the red lines of censorship, artistic expression functions as a form of cultural and political resistance. In this pursuit, for my methodology, I employ a triangulation of ethnographic work paired with reading film-as-text and the application of theory, along with a deep contextual, cultural and linguistic understanding of Iran’s complexities.