gendered power and counter-power in iran’s cinema comparative comparison between films of tahmineh milani and rakhshan banietemad

regarding to the theories of power, a number of scientists believe that power is general exercised across the society through the “contextual” mechanisms. the present study aims to identify the contextual mechanisms which allow gendered power. the present study addresses the issue of how movies toward the subjugation of women and the strengthening of the masculism discourse. also, this study examines how women’s’ counter discourse disrupts the pattern of power enacting. for responding to studies question gendered power is evaluated and interpreted using critical discourse analysis and pelgi and wodak combination approach as well as the theories of bakhtin, althusser, žižek and julia kristeva and their most important concept such as discourse struggle, subjectivization through interpellation, fantasization, and contamination in two films of tahmineh milani and rakhshan banietemad. findings show that the films of tahmineh milani are texts of monophonic and power exerting is unilateral and it is from masculism discourse. the mechanisms of  power exerting is used by masculism discourse for acts of domination. the films of rakhshan banietemad are texts of polyphonic and all discourses can speak. also, power is distributed among them. all the discourses use mechanisms of power exerting and women have resisted opportunities.