Chapter 1 Bahram Beyzaie: A Critical Introduction (Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews, UK) Chapter 2 The Genealogy of Arash, A Hero: from Naqqali to Beyzaie’s Recitation Plays and from Arash The Mythical Hero to Beyzaie’s Marginalized Arash (Saeed Talajooy) Chapter 3 A Pahlevan’s Dreams of Belonging: Reconfiguration of The Ideals of Heroism in Bahram Beyzaie’s So Dies Pahlevan Akbar (Saeed Talajooy) Chapter 4 The Challenges of Centre and Margin: Beyzaie’s Cooperation with The Institute for The Intellectual Development of Children And Young Adults for Uncle Moustache, Journey, And Bashu, The Little Stranger (Amir-Hosein Siadat, Curator of the Art and Experience of Cinema, Tehran, Iran) Chapter 5 The Language of Nature and Earth: An Ecocritical Reading of Stranger and The Fog, Ballad of Tara, and Bashu, The Little Stranger (Fatemeh-Mehr Khansalar, Independent Scholar, UK) Chapter 6 Bashu’s Other Names: A Study of Bashu’s Identity in Bashu, The Little Stranger (Naghmeh Samini, Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts, University of Tehran, Iran, and Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington, USA) Chapter 7 The Cinematic Translation of Ta?ziyeh in Beyzaie’s Travellers (Farshad Zaehdi, Senior Lecturer, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Chapter 8 Crime Thriller Elements in Bahram Beyzaie’s Films (Parviz Jahed, University of St Andrews, UK) Chapter 9 Multilinguality in Iranian Cinema: A Comparative Analysis (Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, Lecturer of Media and Film, SOAS, University of London, UK) Chapter 10 Little Strangers: Representations of Displaced Youth in Iranian New Wave Cinema (Nina Khamsy, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)

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