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Recognizing the Unrecognizable in Dariush Mehrjui’s Gav
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 54, Number 2, Winter 2015
- pp. 49-71
- 10.1353/cj.2015.0009
- Article
- Additional Information
This article explores the ways in which Dariush Mehrjui’s Gav uses cinematic free indirect discourse to complicate our understanding of how the human comes to be recognized within a social field. In so doing, the film not only exposes a perceptual differential or lacuna in how the human is perceived but also posits itself as a medium with the power to help bridge this gap of intelligibility between a community and those individuals whose desire for recognition goes unrecognized by their community.