Book:
- Mahan, Mazyar, and Maryam Ghorbankarimi, eds. ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2026.
Book Chapters:
- Mahan, Mazyar. “Articulating the Feminist ‘I’: Shirin Neshat and the Politics of Authorship.” In ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat, edited by Maryam Ghorbankarimi and Mazyar Mahan. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2026.
- Mahan, Mazyar. “Excavating Silenced Histories: Postmemory, Inherited Trauma, and State Violence in Born in Evin.” In Film and Genocide, edited by Kristi M. Wilson & Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli. University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2026.
- Mahan, Mazyar, and Amal Shafek. “A Transnational Post-Third World Feminist Reading of Shirin Neshat’s Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017).” In The Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media, edited by Samirah Alkassim. Palgrave, forthcoming 2026.
Journal Articles:
- Mahan, Mazyar. “Cinematic Isolation and Entrapment in The Lobster.” Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration 7, no. 1 (2022). Republished in the journal’s tenth-anniversary retrospective issue, 2025.
- Mahan, Mazyar. “The Subversive Effects of Defamiliarization in This Is Not a Film, Directed by Jafar Panahi.” The Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism 40 (Spring 2020).
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