... of the film's thematic and formal articulations of refusal, the essay claims that this work can open new readings of the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Iranian cinema. In discussing the form of refusal, I shall focus first on how the formal style of The Sealed Soil reinforces Rooy-Bekheir's...

...Laura E. Nym Mayhall While Nancy Astor's 1919 victory at the polls—making her the first female member of British Parliament—figures prominently in narratives of women's political progress in Britain, the taunt thrown at her while she was campaigning at the Barbican earlier that year, “It's your...