Cineture: Cultural Negotiation between Iran and the US through Intermediality and Transmediality
Abstract
Literature and film have proven to be influential socio-cultural mediums, facilitating interactions and counteractions between nations where politics often fail to do so. Introducing cineture as a transmedial genre, this article is situated at the intersections of glocalized culture, and Iranian-American studies by considering literature and film as the contact zone between Iranians and Americans. Cineture, the combination of cinema and literature, refers to the circulation of cultures through its specification of film-text transmediation. The application of cineture demonstrates the combination and blending of literary and cinematic works leading to cross the “center and periphery dichotomy.” To study cineture and present the cultural mobility between Iran and the US, the works of Asghar Farhadi and Don DeLillo are chosen. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this paper conducts close readings of Iranian and American novels and films, drawing on several scholars like Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Roland Barthes, Hamid Dabashi, Henry Jenkins, Marie-Laure Ryan, and Roland Robertson, among others. This article demonstrates how there are grounds for communal interactions between Iran and the United States with culture-defined stories being examined through cineture.
Alt Text Acknowledgement
1
Recommended Citation
Esmaeilpour, Naghmeh.
"Cineture: The Trans(inter)mediality and Socio-cultural Mobility between Iran and the US."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
26.3
(2024):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.5405>
This text has been double-blind peer reviewed by 2+1 experts in the field.
The above text, published by Purdue University Press ©Purdue University, has been downloaded 0 times as of 04/26/26.
Included in
American Studies Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Education Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Reading and Language Commons, Rhetoric and Composition Commons, Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Television Commons, Theatre and Performance Studies Commons