Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed KnowledgesOver the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his broad command of critical theory, Michael M. J. Fischer argues that the widespread appeal of Iranian cinema is based in a poetics that speaks not only to Irans domestic cultural politics but also to the more general ethical dilemmas of a world