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The Policy of Space during the Second Pahlavi’s Era: A Marxist Analysis of the Play Shahr-e Qesse (City of Tales) within the Framework of the Cultural Policies of the Second Pahlavi King in Iran
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Farid Ghaderi   , Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari * |
| University of Tehran & - |
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The space provides a tangible form for presenting various ideas and concealing them as well. Economic growth of Pahlavi government after the White Revolution led to production of new, modern spaces, while criticism of modernity became one of the predominant discourses in literary critique of the 1960s. Critique during the 1960s often dealt with opposition of modernity/tradition, city/village, industry/nature. One of the most influential plays of this period was Shahr-e Qesse (The City of Tales) by Bijan Mofid, which not only had numerous performances but also reproduced in various media such as radio, cinema, and theatre, establishing itself as one of the most popular works of arts. This analysis approaches phenomena through Lefebvre’s critical method using the three components of representations of space, spaces of the representation, and spatial practices. From Lefebvre’s critical perspective, space is produced through various political, cultural, and social interactions. Spatial analysis seek to explore space to decode actions within it. This research, through a Lefebvrean/Marxist spatial analysis of Bijan Mofid’s The City of Tales, within the main discourse of the Pahlavi’s cultural policy in 1960s, led to the creation of various spaces. The Hidden ideas within the spaces produces by City of Tales-both within and outside the text- are, in a way, a reproduction of the cultural policy of the Pahlavi government, which the most prominent example was the Shiraz Arts Festival. |
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| Keywords: Shar-e Qesse (City of Tales), Policy of the Space, Second Pahlavi King of Iran, Modernity, Lefebvre, Shiraz Arts Festival. |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2025/03/2 | Accepted: 2025/08/3
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