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A memoir's second life on screen: what the 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' film can and cannot carry
Azar Nafisi's memoir about a covert Tehran book club has been turned into a film. The result is dutiful rather than dangerous — and that tells us something about how the West now stages Iranian women's stories.
Wire provenance
This editorial synthesis draws on the following public wire/social posts:
- https://t.me/s/indiewire/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Lolita_in_Tehran
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azar_Nafisi
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Lolita_in_Tehran_(film)
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