How The Salesman Shows The Psychological Effects of Hegemonic Masculinity: An Expanded Essay

TW: Assault and violence

I wrote this for my final in my class, "Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema". In that course, we focused on analyzing films created by Iranian directors that were speaking on the broader societal issues, both during the past and in the present. The Salesman, the film I examined for this project, was made in 2017 and is centered on two characters, Emad and Rana.