The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie: Origins, Forms and Functions Book cover type:Paperback Lusting for the glamorous life

Lusting for the glamorous life she’s seen in the movies

Through her own telling

including remarkable stories of ingenuity and adaptation that capture the resilience of Indigenous communities

who called her one of the Gods of cinema

The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie: Origins, Forms and Functions Book cover type:Paperback Lusting for the glamorous lifeBahram Beyzaie is one of Irans leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaies films and plays and their preoccupation with the modalities and transformations of Iranian contemporary, historical and mythical identity from different perspectives. The chapters analyse Beyzaies influential plays such as Arash and So Dies Pahlevan Akbar and his filmic magnum opuses such as The Crow, Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing