Displaced AllegoriesFollowing the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Irans film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republics system of modesty, had to ensure that women on screen were veiled from the view of men. This prevented Iranian filmmakers from making use of the desiring gaze, a staple cinematic system of looking. In Displaced Allegories Negar Mottahedeh shows that post Revolutionary Iranian filmmakers were forced to create a new visual language for conveying meaning to