Persepolis

= = //Persepolis //

= = == = = **__Story of a Childhood __** = = Inspired, Satrapi created a book of black-and-white comic strips about living in Tehran from ages six to 14.The book, // Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood //(named after a part of Iran known for its ruins) tells the storyof her growing up, while also showing the Islamic Revolution and its effects on Iranians. Toward the end of the book, war breaks out between Iran and Iraq, and her mother puts tape on the windows of the family home, anticipating correctlythat Iraqi bombs will fall nearby. The book also included moments of humor. "Tales of torture and war are offset by lighter scenes, like the 13-year-old Marjane trying to convince the morals police that her Michael Jackson button is reallya button of Malcolm X, 'the leader of black Muslims in America,'" wrote Tara Bahrampour in the // New York Times. //Iranians, Satrapi explained, are used to using humor to stave off despair. Satrapi said she hoped // Persepolis //wouldcombat the negative images people had of her native country. When the Iranian Revolution broke out, most people in the West only saw images of the revolutionary leaders, which did not reflect the lives of ordinary Iranians, she said. "If people are giventhe chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less," she wrote on the Pantheon website. "That is why I wanted people in othercountries to read // Persepolis, //to see that I grew up just like other children." She also said she hoped to find a way to get the book to young Iranians, perhaps through the Internet, so that more of them could learn the truth about what happened in their country in the early 1980s. // Persepolis //was published in France in two volumes in 2000 and 2001. Critics picked up on the influence of Spiegelman and favorably compared Satrapi's work to his. The first volume won two of Europe's biggest awards for comic books and graphic novels, the Angouleme International Comics Festival's Coup de Coeur award (for a book by an author who has published three or fewer books) and the Prix du Lion from a comics association in Belgium. When it appeared in the United States in 2003, it earned an endorsement from leading American feminist Gloria Steinem. Edward Nawotka, writing in // People, //called // Persepolis //"one of the quirkiest, most entertaining memoirs in recent years." Dave Welch of Powells.com said it "expressed in deceptively simple black-and-white drawings the broken heart and crushed hope of a people." One slightly dissenting comment came from Joy Press, writing in the // Village Voice, //who found Satrapi's youthful, innocent voice powerful but complained that the b = = ook did not reach the emotional depth of // Maus //and that its summaries of Iranian history were cute but not insightful. "Satrapi keeps us at arm's length, so that we never feel fully involved in this girl's intellectual and moral transformation," Press wrote. [] == === = = __Marjane Satrapi __



By recounting her life story of growing up in Iran and emigrating to Europe, and by telling it in graphic-novel form, Marjane Satrapi has become an unusual ambassador for her native country. She has also become a spokeswoman for greater freedom there and a voice against war and for cross-cultural understanding. Her use of graphic novels to tell autobiographical stories with political facets to them makes her messages especially accessible and affecting while bringing serious attention to the graphic-novel form. Born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran, Satrapi grew up in Iran's capital, Tehran. She was an only child of secular, Marxist parents. Iran's Islamic Revolution against the shah, the country's monarch, took place in 1979, the year Satrapi turned ten, and her child's-eye view of the changes in her country later became a focus of her first book. Her parents, who were against the regime of the shah, happily joined in the first protests that helped depose him, but the religious rule that followed turned out to be worse for them. An uncle of Satrapi's was imprisoned by the shah's regime, then executed by revolutionaries. Her mother, who was not religious, eventually felt compelled to wear Islamic garb to avoid attracting the attention of the religious police. Satrapi studied at the Lycee Francais, the French high school in Tehran. Her parents, who had taught her to think freely and not believe the propaganda the government required the teachers to teach, became concerned when Satrapi began to openly question the teachers. They wanted their rebellious daughter to live in a freer society, so t hey sent her to Austria to study. In Vienna, as she later recounted in her second book, Satrapi expected to live with a friend of her parents, but when the friend decided she did not want Satrapi with her any longer, she sent the young woman to live in a convent. She left, according to the book, when one of the nuns used ethnic slurs while yelling at her. She threw herself headlong into life as a western teenager, befriending punks and anarchists and throwing herself into romantic relationships and drug use. She found various temporary homes until, finally, she ended up homeless in wintertime and woke up in a hospital. At 18, she moved back to Tehran, where she attended college and struggled to adjust to living behind a veil and under the watch of the religious police, which would sometimes raid and break up the parties where she and her friends would wear makeup and western clothes. After college, she moved to France, where she studied art in Strasbourg, then moved to Paris. Some of her friends there, who were part of a prominent artist's studio called the Atelier des Vosges, introduced her to graphic novelists, starting with Art Spiegelman, whose graphic novel // Maus //told the story of the Holocaust through the lives of a few Jewish survivors. She realized she could tell stories and make serious points the same way. "Images are a way of writing," she wrote on the Pantheon website. "When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both." Graphic novels had some of the advantages of filmmaking as a way to tell stories, but without needing sponsors or actors, she added. []  = = = = __Iranian Revolution __ = = = = = = <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">In February 1979, the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi collapsed in the face of an organized popular revolution. This event marked the end of over 450 years of monarchical rule that had begun with the establishment of the <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|Safavid dynasty] in 1501; a republican form of government replaced the deposed monarchy. Some scholars trace the origins of the Iranian Revolution to the 1953 coup d'état against the prime minister and National Front leader <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|Mohammad Mossadegh] or to the abortive 1963 uprisings sparked by the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The more immediate cause of the revolution, however, was the failure of the shah's government to address the multifaceted cultural, economic, political, and social grievances that had been <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">building up in Iranian society during the 1970s. The shah not only ignored these grievances but used his secret police agency, the <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|SAVAK], to repress expressions of <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|discontent] and both real and suspected opposition activities. During 1978, Khomeini was the person who succeeded in uniting the diverse currents of discontent into a unified anti-shah movement. He was a senior <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|clergyman] of Shi <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ʿ <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">ism living in exile in Iraq since 1965. Khomeini effectively used popular Shi <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ʿ <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">ite themes, such as the moral and religious <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|righteousness] of struggling against <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|oppression] and for justice, to appeal broadly to both religious and secular Iranians. By 1977, his network of former students had begun circulating tapes of his sermons at religious gatherings; these sermons denounced the shah's <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|injustice] and called for strict adherence to the 1906 constitution, which had established a constitutional monarchy, with the shah subordinate to the elected <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|Majles], or parliament. (The shah, like his father before him, had asserted his authority over the Majles by controlling parliamentary elections and creating what in practice amounted to a royal dictatorship.) The government tried to counteract Khomeini's growing popularity by placing in a pro-regime newspaper an article that defamed the <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|ayatollah] 's character. Its publication provoked major protest demonstrations in <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|Qom] (January 1978), which resulted in several deaths and the closure of the city's bazaars. The incident <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|galvanized] opposition to the shah a = = <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">nd set in motion a cycle of protest demonstrations - and brutal <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|repression] - every forty days, the fortieth day after a death being a traditional Iranian commemoration of the deceased. By August 1978, it had become obvious that the <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|repressive] tactics that had worked in the past no longer were effective in containing the ever-growing protest movement. The shah sought to <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|defuse] the opposition by appointing a new government of <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|royalist] politicians who had maintained ties to the clergy, by freeing some political prisoners, and by relaxing press censorship. This led to a major demonstration in Tehran, where more than 100,000 people marched through the city carrying photos of <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">Khomeini and handing out flowers to the soldiers and police; the latter were asked to join the call for free elections. Similar peaceful but smaller-scale demonstrations took place in many other cities. Apparently frightened by the strength of the movement and the evident solidarity among religious and secular groups, the shah declared martial law in Tehran and eleven other cities and ordered the arrest of National Front and Freedom Movement leaders. The first day of martial law, 8 September 1978, became known as Black Friday because several hundred people were killed in Tehran as troops forced thousands of demonstrators to leave the area of the parliament building, where they had gathered to demand free elections. Black Friday first stunned and then <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|enraged] the people. In response to urging from Khomeini, strikes spread throughout the country, affecting factories, shops, schools, the oil industry, utilities, and the press. By the end of October, Iran's economy was <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|paralyzed]. The shah appointed a military government with authority to force oil workers and others back to their jobs. He also freed imprisoned National Front, Freedom Movement, and <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|clerical] leaders in hopes that they would go to Paris, where Khomeini had moved, and convince the ayatollah to moderate his views. These tactics failed. Many army conscripts were refusing to shoot at <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|unarmed] civilians and even deserting their units, and the strikes continued. Khomeini announced he would accept nothing less than the removal of the shah, and the main secular and religious opposition leaders supported his position. Despite the military government, demonstrations continued throughout November, and each day produced more martyrs as people were killed in cities and towns when the army tried to suppress protest marches. It was clear that the shah's government had lost control of the streets. Fearful of more <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|bloodshed] during the Shi <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ʿ <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">ite religious month of <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|Muharram] (the religious calendar is a lunar on e, and Muharram began on 1 December in 1978), the government agreed to allow traditional <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|mourning] processions if religious leaders promised to keep order. Millions of Iranians participated in peaceful marches throughout the country, but instead of mourning the <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|martyrdom] of the saint Imam Hosain, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;">they called for the downfall of the shah. The popular slogan chanted everywhere became " //Azadi, Istiqlal, Jomhuri Islami// " (freedom, independence, Islamic republic). These terms meant political freedom from the oppression of the secret police, independence from the shah's alliance with the United States, and a republican government based on Islamic principles of justice. The popular message of Muharram was clear, even to the shah, who now sought a <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|dignified] way to leave Iran and preserve the throne for his eighteen-year-old son. He persuaded longtime National Front opponent <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|Shapur Bakhtiar] to form a government. On 16 January 1979, the shah left Iran on a trip officially described as a medical rest. On 1 February 1979, Khomeini, triumphantly returned from exile, refused to recognize the <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|legitimacy] of Bakhtiar's government and appointed a provisional government headed by Freedom Movement leader <span style="color: rgb(148,54,52); text-decoration: none;">[|Mehdi Bazargan]. Demonstrations against Bakhtiar and in favor of Bazargan took place throughout the country. On 11 February 1979, military leaders ordered their forces back to their barracks and to remain-neutral in the civilian political struggle. This announcement led to the collapse of the Bakhtiar government and the victory of the revolutionary movement. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman; text-decoration: none;">[|http://www.answers.com/topic/iranian-revolution] <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;"> __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;">Complete Works __

=<span style="display: block; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(212,43,43); line-height: 115%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> = =<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); font-family: Jokerman;"> = = __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;">French __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">[|//Persepolis//] = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: 'Courier New';">o //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Persepolis 1 //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2000, <span style="color: rgb(0,112,192);">[|L'Association] ) = =<span style="display: block; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(212,43,43); line-height: 115%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: 'Courier New';">o //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Persepolis 2 //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2001, L'Association) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: 'Courier New';">o //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Persepolis 3 //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2002, L'Association) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: 'Courier New';">o //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Persepolis 4 //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2003, L'Association) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Sagesses et malices de la Perse //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2001, with Lila Ibrahim-Ouali and Bahman Namwar-Motlag, Albin Michel) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Les monstres n'aiment pas la lune //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2001, Nathan Jeunesse) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Ulysse au pays des fous //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2001, with Jean-Pierre Duffour, Nathan Jeunesse) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Adjar //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2002, Nathan Jeunesse) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Broderies //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2003, L'Association) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">[|Poulet aux prunes] //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2004, L'Association) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Le Soupir //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2004, Bréal Jeunesse,) =

= = = __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;">English __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%;"> = =<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;"> = =<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Persepolis //<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: 'Courier New';">o //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2003, Pantheon) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: 'Courier New';"> = =<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return// (2004, Pantheon) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Embroideries //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2005, Pantheon) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Chicken with Plums //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2006, Pantheon) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;">(2006, Bloomsbury) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· Persepolis: Movie(2007 Sony pictures classic) = =<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> = = __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;">Awards __ = =<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;"> = =<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· 2004 Alex Award for //Persepolis// <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Symbol;">· 2004 //Booklist// Top Ten Graphic Novels designation for //Persepolis//    =

=<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); font-family: Jokerman;"> = = = = __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman;">The Movie:Persepolis __<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(148,54,52); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman; text-align: center;"> = <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,112,192); line-height: 115%; font-family: Jokerman; text-align: center;">The film was released at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize. The film was released in French and is // The Complete Persepolis ( //not only of // Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood //.) The film version has received high critical acclaim and has won varies award. Including: Nominated for Best Animated Film at the 80th Academy Awards, Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Golden Globe Awards, Won Best First Words at the Cesar Awards, Won Best Writing at the Cesar Awards, Nominated for Best Editing at the Cesar Awards, Nominated for Best Film at the Cesar Awards, Nominated for Best Music for a Written Film at the Cesar Awards, Nominated for Best Sound at the Cesar Awards, Won the Jury Prize at the 2007Cannes Film Festival, Nominated for Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Nominated for Best Picture of the2007 European Film Festival, Won Southerland Trophy at the 2007 London Film Festival, Won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Cinemanila International Film Festival, Won Best Foreign Film at the 2007 Sao Paulo International Film Festival, and Won the Roger’s People Choice Award for Most Popular International Film at the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival. The film has been featured on Top Ten List from notable newspapers and magazines such as: Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, and others. As reviewed by Tom Charity from CNN, “Pop culture's extraordinary ability to speak across borders underpins "Persepolis," an exuberant autobiographical film and dark-horse contender for an animated feature Oscar.” Also told by Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, “Actually, the animation replicates the black-and-white look of the graphic novels to such an extent that there is little difference between reading the books and watching the film.” The film has been said to stay true to the original novel with the only difference being live acting voices and moving screens. Persepolis wastranslated into English, Persian, and German. The novel has received applauding reviews from the Western countries. As for Iran, the government was not pleased with the negative view of the religious government and complained to the Cannes Film Festival for showing it. Yet, the government did eventually allow the film to play after censoring parts of it. The film was also banned in places like Thailand and Lebanon. Even with these reactions, around the world the film was critically acclaimed for being an insight into a real Iranian family with care and how a normal family felt about the Revolution. <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[|**http://www.persepolismovie.co.uk/**]

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= = =__Part A__= In many aspects, the western world perceives Iran as a threat to stability in the Middle East. Satrapi states, “This old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism.” However, the people of Iran, not the government, support western ideals and culture. In what ways did western thinking, ideals, and/or culture influence Satrapi’s life? Use at least one quote from the //Persepolis// wiki, and one quote from the novel. =__Part B__= Although Satrapi’s black and white images evoke emotive power, humor also plays a key role in her storytelling. Use at least one quote from the novel and one quote from the //Persepolis// wiki to explain how humor is used to mask Satrapi’s fears. = =
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