Golnaz Sarkar Farshi

[ 1 ] - Genre Shift and Identity Maintenance – An Analysis of Iranian War Film Genres (1980-2013) with Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory

A close observation of Iran-Iraq war films in the Iranian society reveals that their genres have shifted in the course of the society’s evolution. This questions the category-based principles of genre we have known so far in literature concerning film theory and necessitates a new conceptualization of genre, which can be realized with the aid of Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. This theo...