Persianate culture

Poster for Ghérip-Senem (1981), a landmark Uyghur adaptation of the transregional romance tradition.

“Ghérip-Senem”: The visualization of Persianate poetic symbolism in Uyghur cinema

Diego Benning Wang explores how the 1981 Uyghur film Ghérip-Senem turns a shared Persianate-Turkic romance into distinctly Uyghur cinema through poetry, music and visual symbolism. [...]