Sara Saljoughi is Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently at work on a book about the aesthetics and politics of Iranian art cinema prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. @sarasaljoughi
The Boundaries of Community: Sara Saljoughi on Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow
Centered around Masht Hassan, who owns the only cow in his small Iranian village, Dariush Mehrjui’s 1969 film The Cow can be considered a mirror held up to the West’s latest crisis of divisive, xenophobic, and exclusionary politics.