Sohrab Mirab
PhD Student | Cinema Studies
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Research and Creative Interests
- Iranian Cinema
- Animation Studies
- Avant-garde Cinema
- Child-Centric Cinema
- Essay Film
- Transnational Cinemas
- Allegory
- Postcolonialism
- War Cinema
Biography
Sohrab Mirab is a second year PhD student of Cinema Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington with a minor at the Comparative Literature Department. He graduated with MA in film studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and holds MFA in film production from San Francisco State University. While his main area of expertise is Iranian cinema, he is equally interested in the national cinemas of Francophone countries and Eastern Europe. He also focuses on the historical and aesthetic interrelationships of such national cinemas through the lens of transnationalism. His other major areas of interest are animation studies, war cinema, child-centric cinema, avant-garde cinema, essay film, allegory, and postcolonialism. He is planning to write his dissertation on the history of pre-revolutionary Iranian animation and its aesthetic effect on the works produced in the immediate years succeeding the revolution of 1979.