Trouble in the Tehran Multiplex: Xerxes, 300, and 300: Rise of an Empire in Iran
Trouble in the Tehran Multiplex: Xerxes, 300, and 300: Rise of an Empire in Iran
This chapter studies how audiences in a particular location received the movie 300. The author examines how antiheroic constructions of the Persian King Xerxes in 300 and its sequel Rise of an Empire elicited strong negative reactions in Iran. Hollywood reinvented Xerxes as a force of evil, creating a corrupt representation of an Iranian national hero. The chapter shows how Iranian audiences received this plundered and corrupted version of their ancestral past.
Keywords: 300, Rise of an Empire, Iran, Xerxes, Persiam heroism
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