Infidelity as Reality: Re-Staging the Global South with Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up

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dc.contributor.authorRichards, Sinan
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-26T12:50:06Z
dc.date.available2026-02-26T12:50:06Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-03
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we contend that, in the fields of art and visual culture, the Global South is both an elaborate lie and a radical opportunity for transformation. We investigate Kiarostami’s Close-up alongside Lacan’s psychoanalysis to show how Close-up’s filmic narrative evokes the same ‘polyvalence’ and ‘slipperiness’ as the notion of the Global South. We argue that Kiarostami’s Close-up retroactively changed Sabzian’s fate, and in so doing, Kiarostami’s re-staging actively overwrites History itself. We read the same narrative move in the concept of the Global South to suggest that the Global South adopts the Kiarostamian strategy of infidelity as reality by using fiction to deploy a vision of the future to transform the past.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidRichards, Sinan§0000-0002-5935-1687
dc.identifier.citationRichards, S 2019, 'Infidelity as Reality : Re-Staging the Global South with Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up', Artl@s Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 2, 2, pp. 23-34. < https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=artlas >
dc.identifier.endpage34
dc.identifier.issn2264-2668
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dc.identifier.journaltitleArtl@s Bulletin
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5935-1687/work/92027111
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5935-1687/work/102167768
dc.identifier.startpage23
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18580
dc.identifier.volume8
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPurdue University Press
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dc.relation.urihttps://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=artlas
dc.relation.urihttps://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=artlas
dc.rights© 2019, the Author. This is an Open Access article. Readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text. This article is covered under the CC-BY-NC-SA license.
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dc.rights.licensenameAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectGlobal South
dc.subjectAbbas Kiarostami’s Close-up
dc.subject[LanguageLiteratureCulture]
dc.titleInfidelity as Reality: Re-Staging the Global South with Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-upen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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