Farshid Kazemi is Sessional Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests combine an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to film and media studies, film theory, Iranian studies, and Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.
Combining Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Iranian Shi‘ite thought, and Islamicate sexualities, Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires provides a groundbreaking analysis of the... (more)