Sohrab Mirab
PhD Student | Cinema Studies
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Research and Creative Interests
- Iranian Cinema
- Transnational Cinemas
- Avant-garde Cinema
- Child-Centric Cinema
- Essay Film
- Allegory
- Postcolonialism
- Animation Studies
Biography
Sohrab Mirab is a first year PhD student of Cinema Studies at the Media School. He graduated with MA in Film Studies from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (class of 2024), and had previously received MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University (class of 2016). His MA thesis analyzes the allegorical groundings of Mohammad Reza Aslani’s Chess of the Wind (1976) and Bahram Beyzaie’s Death of Yazdgerd (1982) in reinterpretation of Iranian cotemporary history, and specifically, the Islamic Revolution of 1979. While his main area of expertise is Iranian cinema, he is equally interested in the national cinemas of France and Italy. He also focuses on the historical and aesthetic interrelationships of such national cinemas through the lens of transnationalism.