Representation of the transformation of the Iranian family in the Fajr film festival 2001-2015
Subject Areas : sociologyRoghieh Mohammadzadeh 1 , Maghsoud Farasatkhah 2 *
1 - PhD Student, Department of Cultural Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan Branch (Corresponding Author)
2 - *Professor, Higher Education Planning Department, Higher Education Research and Planning Institute, Tehran, Iran
m_farasathah@#yahoo.com
Keywords: Ideology, Family, Semiotics, Fajr Festival, Fisk,
Abstract :
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to study the transformation of the family in content of the Fajr film festival from 2001-2015.Therefore, using the qualitative method(Fisk semiotics), 13 selected films of the festival with the theme of family were analyzed and evaluated. Based on the findings, components such as intergenerational conflicts, child incompatibility, distorted image of masculinity, new patterns of relationships such as extramarital affairs, marital tension, lack of romantic relationships in family, restless family, prevalence of consumption-based capital, Women's careers, the importance of cyberspace, the emergence of fragmented and incomplete families, the decline of family authority, is a representation of the Iranian family.In these films, we seem to encounter profound family transformations in which there is a fundamental conflict between the transition from tradition to modernity. The family represented in the selected films has traditional, modern, and in some cases, integrated features.Some traditional roles such as the supportive role of women in the family, changes in relationship-function and conflicts of family members, study of individual and family relationships, family developments, changes in the dominant culture in the family and roles are represented in these productions. The results also show that while reducing the economic-supportive function of the family, its consumption dimension has increased. The major values presented in the films reflect the prevailing culture and values at the level of family-related discourses, through the extension of which the audience's understanding of the functioning and structure of the family and the necessity of this institution can be transformed.