Women's Role Representation in Iranian Cinema A Survey on Cultural Policies in the Cinema before and After the Islamic

Subject Areas : Sociology

لنا Abdolkhani ^{1 *} , محمد Nasrabadi ²

1 - Faculty Member, Department of Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Ahwaz, Iran,
2 - M.A. in Political Sciences, Department of Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Ahwaz, Iran

Received: 2011-09-04 Accepted : 2012-01-11 Published : 2011-12-22

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Abstract :

This study proposed a theoretical framework based on “critical theory” of the sociology of art. This theory is based on Reaction hypothesis which shows the art as a mirror, reflects social characteristics of a given society. It involves descriptive and documentary research methods. The technique used in this study is the qualitative analysis of content. Our hypothesis suggested that there is a clear difference between the representation of women in respect to the contents and subjects in the movies before and after the Islamic Iran’s Revolution. The data showed that the representation of women in the Iranian cinema has been changed dramatically in the two periods i.e. before and after the second year of 1979 post years. These changes occurred due to the issues such as representation of women in modern movies, quality of jobs, type of clothing and veil, cultural-related products use, personal skills, dialogues contents, level of education, beliefs, language, mechanisms that lead to resolving personal and family problems and etc. The overall results indicated that shift in cultural policymaking of the Iranian Cinema led to a differing view about representation of women in Cinema after the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

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