Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran
Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan
$109.51
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2025
Summary
In Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran, Joan Copjec examines the films of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. The key to these films, she argues, lies in the image of a fragile yet sheltering tree that appears in several of his films. This simple image depicts a central concept of Islamic philosophy, which is known as the “Cloud” or the “Imaginal World.” It designates the place out of which all the things of this world manifest themselves and “covers,” or veils, that which must remain…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552394 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262552396 |
| Author: | Joan Copjec |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
Joan Copjec
Joan Copjec is Professor of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University. She is the author of Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists and Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (both with MIT Press). She was editor of the S book series at Verso, as well as editor of October and editor and cofounder of Umbr(a).
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