Retracted Article: Transformation of Non/Revolutionary Themes in Iranian Cinema: 1980s–2000s

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We, the Editor and Publisher of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, have retracted the following article: Rasoul Afzali, Seyed Majid Hoseini & Qiuomars Yazdanpanah Dero. “Transformation of Non/Revolutionary Themes in Iranian Cinema: 1980s?2000s,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, published online 13 May 2020, DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2020.1762474. The reason for retraction is significant overlap with the following previously published sources throughout the article without appropriate acknowledgement: Seyed Majid Hosseini. 2016. Tandal: Transformation of Political Culture in Iranian Best-selling Cinema (1978–2011). Az Noe, Tehran. The article also contained significant overlap with the following sources, particularly in the introduction and the Theoretical Foundations section, and were not sufficiently cited or marked in quotations: Annalisa Frisina and Stefania Muresu. 2018. “Ten Years of Participatory Cinema as a Form of Political Solidarity with Refugees in Italy.” From ZaLab and Archivio Memorie Migranti to 4CaniperStrada. Arts, 7, pp 17–29. Chris Lippard. 2017. “Peripherality and Humor in the Iranian Art Film.” Iranian Studies, 50(6), pp 917–944. J. Mario Grilo. 2014. “Propositions for a Gestural Cinema: On “Cine-Trances” and Jean Rouch’s Ritual Documentaries.” In Cinema and Agamben Ethics, Bio Politics and the Moving Image, edited by Henrik Gustafsson and Asbjørn Grønstad, 121–138. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Nacim Pak-Shiraz. 2017. “Shooting the Isolation and Marginality of Masculinities in Iranian Cinema.” Iranian Studies, 50(6), 945–967. We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted.”