in this article we study the attitudes of iranian cinema audience toward popular films. affected by classic elite cultural theories, popular culture and consumers of popular culture have been humiliated for many years. according to this theories, audience of popular magazines, popular music, popular films and other popular culture products, have been considered as passive victims. cultural stud...

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...

this paper aims to study the imagination of tehran through 1340s and 1350s iranian cinema and the main question is that what kind of representation on city was fueled by cinema. this study was conducted based on analysis of four impressive films in these two decades. two of them are popular movies (ganje gharoon and khater khah) and the two other (khesht-o ayeni and ragbar) are related to avant...

This article refers to:Retracted Article: Transformation of Non/Revolutionary Themes in Iranian Cinema: 1980s–2000s

abstractin this article, iranian society in the 80s is analyzed in terms of its prevailing insights using the theory of reflection in the sociology of cinema. this theory, which considers art as a mirror for society, permits researcher to study the predominant perceptions of the period under investigation. this is done through assessment of the image of hero shown in its cinema. moreover, the g...

the iranian “new wave” filmmakers started to pay attention to social changes during the pahlavi regime. imperial pahlavi successfully suppressed his political oppositions in decade of 1332-1342 (hijri shamsi) and spread a social reform during the following decades in 40’s to 50’s. the iranian cinematic movement that was called new wave by some persian film critics because of its similarly to th...