Representation of Gender Identity of Women in the Cinema of War

Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Ashraf-alsadat Pironaziri ¹ , Tahmoures Shiri ²

1 - Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
2 - Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Received: 2016-12-24 Accepted : 2016-12-24 Published : 2016-09-01

Keywords: Cinema of war, discourse, gender Identity, compensatory dialectic,

Abstract :

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the moviesof war period. Four movies of ‘Bashu little stranger’, ‘Gilaneh’ and ‘from Karkhe to the Rhine’ were selectedand the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. In these movies,although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form of traditional women, but they left theirimpact in a reciprocal relationship that they found with the social, economic and cultural situations. In betterwords, the use of compensatory dialectic was evident in actions of women to use the opportunities that theyobtain and increase the amount of influence and effectiveness in this research.