The Object Gaze, Hejab, Cinema

Authors

  • Joan Copjec

Abstract

The specific type of torture to which Abu Ghraib prisoners were submitted was predicated on the assumption that hejab, or the islamic system of modest, makes Muslims especially vulnerable to shame. This paper investigates this supposed link between hejab and the affect of shame through an analysis of the philosophical and psychoanalytic literature on shame and the films of the iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami. Beginning with a discussion of the massive impact of hejab regulations on Iranian cinema, the author shows how Kiarostami’s critique of these regulations becomes a powerful argument for shame as against the modesty system.

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Published

2007-01-01

How to Cite

Copjec, J. (2007). The Object Gaze, Hejab, Cinema. Filozofski Vestnik, 27(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3154