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In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize a... more In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize and, even, change the public attitude toward women. Regarding all these media, cinema has been very effective in the reproduction of gender roles as well as reinforcement and, in some cases, negation of unequal models.The relation between film and feminism reflectes our understanding on sexual differences and gender identity. Cinemas in the Middle East have similarly followed a similar path and they have attempted to represent the image and character of women in different ways. However, the real question of this paper is concerned on the manner and quality of this representation. In other words, the aim of this study is to analyze the image representation of women in the cinemas of the Middle East.This research examines through the works of three contemporary men filmmakers who live in Middle East and pay attention to social struggle between power structure and women. To achieve this purpose, feminist theories, feminist film theory and semiotic analysis technique have been used to study selected samples as well as exctract common factors among the selected works as a part of the works presented in cinemas of the Middle East. The selected samples are "Separation" by the Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, "Osama" by the Afghan director, Siddiq Barmak, and "Factory Girl" by the Egyptian director, Muhammad Khan. It should be noted that all these films have been selected based on some certain criteria such as effective and key role of women in the progress of drama,
In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize a... more In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize and, even, change the public attitude toward women. Regarding all these media, cinema has been very effective in the reproduction of gender roles as well as reinforcement and, in some cases, negation of unequal models.The relation between film and feminism reflectes our understanding on sexual differences and gender identity. Cinemas in the Middle East have similarly followed a similar path and they have attempted to represent the image and character of women in different ways. However, the real question of this paper is concerned on the manner and quality of this representation. In other words, the aim of this study is to analyze the image representation of women in the cinemas of the Middle East.This research examines through the works of three contemporary men filmmakers who live in Middle East and pay attention to social struggle between power structure and women. To achieve this purpose, feminist theories, feminist film theory and semiotic analysis technique have been used to study selected samples as well as exctract common factors among the selected works as a part of the works presented in cinemas of the Middle East. The selected samples are "Separation" by the Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, "Osama" by the Afghan director, Siddiq Barmak, and "Factory Girl" by the Egyptian director, Muhammad Khan. It should be noted that all these films have been selected based on some certain criteria such as effective and key role of women in the progress of drama,
In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize a... more In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize and, even, change the public attitude toward women. Regarding all these media, cinema has been very effective in the reproduction of gender roles as well as reinforcement and, in some cases, negation of unequal models.The relation between film and feminism reflectes our understanding on sexual differences and gender identity. Cinemas in the Middle East have similarly followed a similar path and they have attempted to represent the image and character of women in different ways. However, the real question of this paper is concerned on the manner and quality of this representation. In other words, the aim of this study is to analyze the image representation of women in the cinemas of the Middle East.This research examines through the works of three contemporary men filmmakers who live in Middle East and pay attention to social struggle between power structure and women. To achieve this purpose, feminist theories, feminist film theory and semiotic analysis technique have been used to study selected samples as well as exctract common factors among the selected works as a part of the works presented in cinemas of the Middle East. The selected samples are "Separation" by the Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, "Osama" by the Afghan director, Siddiq Barmak, and "Factory Girl" by the Egyptian director, Muhammad Khan. It should be noted that all these films have been selected based on some certain criteria such as effective and key role of women in the progress of drama,
In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize a... more In the modern world, mass media have been able to influence people and communities to stabilize and, even, change the public attitude toward women. Regarding all these media, cinema has been very effective in the reproduction of gender roles as well as reinforcement and, in some cases, negation of unequal models.The relation between film and feminism reflectes our understanding on sexual differences and gender identity. Cinemas in the Middle East have similarly followed a similar path and they have attempted to represent the image and character of women in different ways. However, the real question of this paper is concerned on the manner and quality of this representation. In other words, the aim of this study is to analyze the image representation of women in the cinemas of the Middle East.This research examines through the works of three contemporary men filmmakers who live in Middle East and pay attention to social struggle between power structure and women. To achieve this purpose, feminist theories, feminist film theory and semiotic analysis technique have been used to study selected samples as well as exctract common factors among the selected works as a part of the works presented in cinemas of the Middle East. The selected samples are "Separation" by the Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, "Osama" by the Afghan director, Siddiq Barmak, and "Factory Girl" by the Egyptian director, Muhammad Khan. It should be noted that all these films have been selected based on some certain criteria such as effective and key role of women in the progress of drama,