a comparative analysis of sociological situation and cinematic representation in iranian movies from the 80s: a case study of deep breathmaryam sadat naghibi esfahani, hasan ali pourmand, mahdi keshavarz afsharma student, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modar...

During the interwar period in Iran and Egypt, local and regional manifestation of tajadod/al-jidida (modernity) as a “cultural identity crisis” created the nationalist image and practice of zan-e emrouzi-e shahri/al-mar’a al-jidida al-madani (the urban/secular “New Woman”). The dynamics of the process involved performance art, including the covert medium of journalism and the overt world of the...

During the last few years the industry has seen a wide adoption of HD technologies in all aspects of acquisition, storage, processing, and long term archiving of content for mainstream broadcasting, sports and high-end cinema applications. Moreover, the transition to HD in all ENG and News operations is now fully underway by the adoption of efficient, file-based compressed A/V systems, at level...

The cinema industry standards for the calibration of both commercial cinemas and professional dubbing theatres seem, to a growing number of professionals, to be lagging behind the current state of the art for achieving both better overall sound quality and better room-to-room compatibility. In a presentation in late 2010 to the UK's Institute of Acoustics [1] it was clearly shown how the curren...

bourdieu had the help of two concepts of “habitus” and “field” to explain his theory and to show social distinctions, he argues that the social world is made up of different fields. each field has its own certain habitus and they can change depending on the field`s change. he believes that modern world is based on distinction. this distinction is clear in structural concepts such as space, clas...

Downloaded: 30 May 2012 IP address: 148.88.176.155 In his excellent introductory essay, Mayer not only discusses the theatrical history, nature, and function of the plays, but also their ideological significance both in Britain and America. He sees them as a response to many of the cultural and social anxieties of the age: the crisis of religious faith, the rise of feminism, the emergence of cl...

iranian popular films, as a type of national culture, are consumed vastly iran. although they are neglegted in common cultural studies is iran, according to recent culture theories , they are some cultural texts including the ideological cods that they have an important role in the constrution of collective social perception. therefore, a quastion that can be addressed is what the narrative and...

An article published on India Outlook in July 2019 stated that Dharavi, Mumbai’s biggest slum, has now beaten the Taj Mahal as most popular tourist destination India, having “received a push by Hollywood and Indian films alike” (2019). Following Hesmondalgh’s observation cultural industries reflect inequalities of capitalist societies (2007), we examine precisely relationship between poverty to...