Political Climate of Iranian Cinema from 1991 to 2001; Spoken Discourse Analysis of the Movie “the Dead Wave”
Subject Areas : Communication
Muhammad Hassan Hashim Khanlou
1
,
Hassan Bashir
2
1 - M.A. in Islamic Studies and Culture and Communication, Policy Studies Area from Imam Sadiq (p.b) University.
2 - Professor, Imam Sadiq (p.b) University
Keywords: critical discourse analysis, Norman Fairclough, Iran-US relations, The Dead Wave, 1991 to 2001,
Abstract :
This article is conducted by leveraging Fairclough’s framework for Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze the representation of Iran’s political context from 1991 to 2001 in the movie, The Dead Wave (2001) written and directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia. The criteria for choosing this particular movie was its wealth in representing Iran’s political, social and ideological conditions. After reviewing the present wings and political groups at the years leading to the time of production of this text, this research will attempt to determine the movie’s position towards their competing discourses. Disregarding some aspects of the movie in the analysis process (such as images, music and tones of dialogues) due to practical limitations, after extracting discourse types (and their interpretation of situational and intertextual contexts) from the dialogues of the characters of the Dead Wave and their actions in the story and then explanations of these discourse types in respect of power relations in the time of production of the text, It has been claimed that this movie by reminding the history of involvement of the US government in Iran-Iraq war and especially shooting down the Iranian passenger aircraft of flight 655, with criticizing the performance of the then-current administration in foreign affairs and the alteration of position toward that country and the subculture and actions of the Iranian young generation, defends the dominant idealism from 1981 to 1991 in Iran and the traditional values of this country.
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