The Image of the Woman in the Cinema (Analysis of Ten Film of the 80s of Iranian Cinema)

Abstract

AbstractAs scientific and artistic approaches and ideas became closer to each other, and raising the relationship between society and art, the image presented by various groups, especially the lower classes of society, including women, became a serious subject for research in the media. Based on the ideas of feminist theory and discourse approach, the present article describes how this image is represented in the films (ten films) of the 2000s in Iran. This article analyzes the relationship between the images created by them and the dominant political discourses in this period. According to the findings, in most films, the representation of women's lives tends to be more modern and inclined to none-patriarchal ideas, but these modern women, never find themselves in a polar state. They have the main features of both discourses at the same time. Considering the whole images, in spite of the fact that these works are influenced by the directors' attitudes and their discourse affiliations, there are reflections of the social conditions of the issue of "femininity and masculinity" in these films. It is as if there is a reflection of the conditions of the real transition of society from the traditional to the more modern stage in the films as well.

Keywords

• cinema
• femininity
• feminism
• masculinity
• representation