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What actually counts as a “ban”?
State prohibition, refused classification, distributor shelving, self-withdrawal — four very different fates often filed under one word. A working taxonomy for the project.
Episodes/File 006
Episode 006 · Iran / LebanonBanned
Persepolis (2007)
dir. Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
· Sidu Chen
An animated memoir of girlhood after the 1979 revolution, pulled from cinemas and a regional television broadcast. A case study in how a single coming-of-age story becomes a diplomatic incident.
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Ep. 6 — Persepolis, animated and unwelcome
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01 / Show notes
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02 / Transcript
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03 / Further reading
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