Annotated Bibliography: Persepolis and Argo

What am I writing about?

How does the perspective of the Iranian Revolution change based 

off who is telling the story?

The Texture of Retracing Marjane Satrapi

In this specific edition of Women's Studies Quarterly, the author Hillary

 Shute goes into detail about Satrapi's life growing up in Iran before, 

during, and after the Islamic revolution. Shute expands greatly on the 

importance of female's roles in the graphic narrative world. Though this 

article focuses on Satrapi's novel, not the movie, the audience gets

important information for Iranian female perspective.

How people should view Iranian People 

This interview with Marjane Satrapi from Bitch magazine goes deep 

into her emotions of how people outside of Iran view the people of 

Iran. She highlights Iranians are humans too, they have the same

hopes, dreams, and aspirations as the rest of the world. The importance 

of this interview for my research paper is the emotional aspect it 

holds. She realizes the radicalism of he home country but the people 

of Iran are just like everyone else.

Graphic Novels From and About the Middle East

This academic article begins focusing on Marjane Satrapi and her

graphic novel journey. It then brings forward additional authors

from the Middle Eastern region and has them explain their version of 

the Islamic Revolution through their eyes. I believe this article will be

the basis of my research paper because revealing different aspects from 

other Middle Easterners is great material that most people do not know 

about.

Ben Affleck: Director and Actor 

This interview with Ben Affleck explains his journey in choosing 

the topic for his movie Argo, and why this part of history stuck out

to him. He emphasizes the importance of storytelling in the movie 

industry. He believes his version of the story "touches a certain place 

in our collective consciousness."

"Spies Like Us"

This interview includes Ben Affleck and former U.S. CIA spy, Tony 

Mendez, the interview begins talking about the movie Argo focusing on

filming concepts with how the movie came together as a whole. 

However,most of the interview is directed towards Mendez and his 

specific plan that he came up with as a CIA spy in getting hostages 

out of Iran. For the sake of my research, having inside to a U.S. CIA 

spy working during this time in history, adds great value to his version

of the Islamic Revolution.

Bibliography

"Ben AFFLECK." Interview, vol. 42, no. 8, Oct/Nov2012, pp. 60-157. EBSCOhost, proxy.kennesaw.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=fth&AN=82717482&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Chute, Hillary. “The Texture of Retracing in Marjane Satrapi's ‘Persepolis.’” Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1/2, 2008, pp. 92–110., www.jstor.org/stable/27649737.

Elahi, Babak. “Frames and Mirrors in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis.” Symplokē, vol. 15, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 312–325., www.jstor.org/stable/40550774.

Nashawaty, Chris. "Spies Like Us." Entertainment Weekly, no. 1227, 05 Oct. 2012, pp. 52-55. EBSCOhost, proxy.kennesaw.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=fth&AN=81284060&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Reyns-Chikuma, Chris and Houssem Ben Lazreg. "Marjane Satrapi and the Graphic Novels from and about the Middle East." Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter2017, pp. 758-775. EBSCOhost, proxy.kennesaw.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=fth&AN=121396501&site=eds-live&scope=site.