Urban space and cinema; The effect of warscape representation on the promotion of collective memories (Case study: standing in the dust, on the third day)

Subject Areas : urbanism

Hadis Loghmani ¹ (Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran)
Ayda Bagheri Beheshti ² (Islamic Azad University Science and research branch of tehran)

Received: 2021-11-14 Accepted : 2022-08-08 Published : 2022-10-23

Keywords: Cinema, Urban space, collective memory, war,

Abstract :

Events such as war due to the ideals of a land, can be the formation and background of the memory of a city or country. In order to continue and transmit these memories, we must pay attention to the emphasis on the representation of urban spaces and identities that affect people and their mentality. In order to revive the spaces and emphasize the history of a city, events and especially events such as war, films play a planning role. In this regard, the present researcher has examined two films, "The Third Day", which narrates the resistance in the western regions of Khorramshahr in 1980, and "Standing in the Dust", which begins from the moment. The purpose of this study is to influence the elements and features of urban spaces in promoting war memories by movies. What a representation of the wartime period for the consolidation and continuity of urban spaces is reminiscent of a war event. Accordingly, first by using documentary studies and important libraries of urban spaces and cinema and communication with each other in the form of urban symbol, personality, urban functions, values, rituals, the voice of the city and nature. And was expressed based on important criteria and elements to revive memory in each field. Then, the amount of portrayal in the two films "Third Day" and "Standing in the Dust" was examined and according to the results obtained from the encounters with the representation of war, according to the ideology of directing has shown. Studies show that most of the urban spaces used in "Standing in the Dust" focused on urban performance with a duration of 1642, the film time and the highest in "Third Day". The time of the display of wartime spaces is related to the symbol of the city, such as the search to display the symbolic meanings of trenches, enemy tanks and martyrs in inducing the concept of war in the city, which is 677 seconds of the film. From the viewers' point of view, the symbol of the city in "The Third Day" is one of the most important in the inductions of the war, while the film "Standing in the Dust" refers more to the quality that has the natural characteristics of war and the performance of the city. Considering the comparison between the qualities expressed and the author in the movie In the Dust, it is important to pay attention to urban performances, which is also very effective in the eyes of the viewers of this movie, and in the third day movie, the symbol of the city is considered by the director. And the author is considered and is considered as an important symbol of the city by the viewers of this film. Interviews and hockey reviews of urban performance and war landscape symbols in the sequence of war genre films have a significant impact and based on this, map solutions to provide urban views from an urban planning perspective in these cases have been presented.

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