SMRN Public Lecture Series Presents
Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires
Virtual Book Launch – Dr. Farshid Kazemi
Moderator: Dr. Laura U. Marks
Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Time: 10:00 A.M. (Pacific Time)
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9uAD-v7gTWuOAIfo5RibRw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
About the Book:
Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis, Iranian Shi’ite thought, and Islamicate sexualities, Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires offers a groundbreaking look at desire and sexuality in contemporary Iranian cinema. Farshid Kazemi demonstrates how censorship in post-revolutionary Iranian films has paradoxically produced a “cinema of desire,” revealing the hidden libidinal structures at play. This book is the first to explore the unconscious economy of desire in Iranian cinema through a psychoanalytic lens, offering fresh insights for film studies.
The launch will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Laura U. Marks and a Q&A session.
About Dr. Farshid Kazemi:
Farshid Kazemi is an Adjunct Lecturer in Film Studies at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. His research spans Film and Media Studies, Iranian Studies, and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He earned his PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh, focusing on Iranian cinema and psychoanalytic film theory. Kazemi has published widely on Iranian cinema, psychoanalytic and feminist film theory, and his book on A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was published by Liverpool University Press in 2021.
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