Overview
Milad is a researcher interested in studying Iranian cinema with a concentration on feminist and gender studies. He has published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Feminist Media Studies and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He won The Best Article of the Year in the 3rd Annual Iranian Cinematic Research Award and conducted a research project for Technology Development and Cinema Studies of the Iranian Organization of Cinema on the relationship between Iranian cinema and haptic theory.
Research Focus
- Iranian Cinema
- Feminist Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Haptic Cinema
Publications
- “Eastern Caressing Eyes: Persian-Islamic Arts, Haptic Moments, and Kiarostami’s Cinema”, Milad Sotoudeh & S. Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad, in Trends in Iranian Cinema: Local and Global Perspectives, Edited by B.M. Bakhtiari and M. Rahmati, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- “Phantasmagoric Manifestations of the Modern City During the Pahlavi Era and Its Representation in Brick and Mirror”, S. Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad & Milad Sotoudeh, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol 40, Issue 8, 2023, page 980-1000
- “Panopticon Surveillance on Iranian Women during the Pahlavi Era, with Concentration on the Visibility and Invisibility Paradigms: the case of Dead End" by Parviz Sayyad (1977), Milad Sotoudeh & S. Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad, Feminist Media Studies, Vol 23, Issue 1, 2023, page 329-343
- “The Capacities of Haptic Perception in Persian- Islamic Art and its Function in Cinematic Expression: The Case of The Green Fire”, A. Sayyad & Milad Sotoudeh & S. Sotoudeh, BAGH-E NAZAR Journal, Volume 17, Issue 88, October 2020, Page 19 - 26.