TY  - JOUR
ID  - 248466
TI  - Through the Looking-Glass: Postmodern Metafiction and the Hyperreal in Shahram Mokri's Black Rabbit, White Rabbit
JO  - Journal of Edulingual Studies (JES)
JA  - JES
LA  - en
SN  - 
AU  - Ameri, Behnam
AU  - Pourjafari, Fatemeh
AD  - Department of English Language, Ke.C., Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran
AD  - Assistant Professor,Department of English Language, Ke.C., Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran
Y1  - 2026
PY  - 2026
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
SP  - 65
EP  - 73
KW  - Postmodernism, Metafiction, Hyperreality, Historiographic Metafiction, Chekhov's Gun, M&ouml
KW  - bius Strip
DO  - 10.22034/jes.2026.588511.1011
N2  - Shahram Mokri's Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025) is a radical postmodern experiment that stages a crisis of representation itself. This article argues that the film weaponizes narrative convention through its literalization of Chekhov's Gun, transforms the Möbius strip into a narrative and ontological structure, and refuses the audience the stability of a single "real" reality. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Jean Baudrillard, Linda Hutcheon, and Jean-François Lyotard, the analysis demonstrates how Mokri's reconstruction of a foundational Iranian cinematic text (Hezardastan), his use of the Alice in Wonderland motif, and the film's unique location in Tajikistan together create a labyrinthine meditation on historiography, hyperreality, and the death of the author. The film exposes cinema as a machine that produces meaning through deliberate, self-aware illusion and then deconstructs that machinery in real time. Ultimately, Black Rabbit, White Rabbit stands as a challenge to the viewer: to watch it is to enter a labyrinth, to confront the machinery of narrative, and to realize that there is no exit.
UR  - https://www.jesjournal.com/article_248466.html
L1  - https://www.jesjournal.com/article_248466_49eaec28f4900fa5af48bc8d1961b071.pdf
ER  -