ABSENCE OF SYSTEM LEGITIMACY IN IRANIAN CINEMA AND A COMPARISON WITH AMERICAN CINEMA

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JAVADI YEGANEH M.R.

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Journal: SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE Year:2009 | Volume:1 | Issue:1 Page(s): 61-95

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ABSENCE OF SYSTEM LEGITIMACY IN IRANIAN CINEMA AND A COMPARISON WITH AMERICAN CINEMA

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LEGITIMACYQ3

LEGITIMATIONQ2

POLITICAL SYSTEMQ3

IRANIAN CINEMAQ1

AMERICAN CINEMAQ3

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Cinema has a dual function: it reflects the society and its changes, and it can create new world through which the society can see itself in another way, thereby cinema can cause social change. One of the manifestations of this duality is in cinema's relations with the state and state LEGITIMACY. This paper presents an argument on system LEGITIMACY in cinema with attention to the views of Weber and Habermas on the LEGITIMACY and LEGITIMATION of rational systems.In the political cinema of the world today, attention to the subjects presented by cinema and their effects on <;ulturaland POLITICAL SYSTEMs is increasing. AMERICAN CINEMA has had remarkable success in the subject of government LEGITIMACY, and in most cases reflects and establishes the LEGITIMACY of the government and POLITICAL SYSTEM (on a macro level). Even movies critical of the POLITICAL SYSTEM have an ultimately positive view toward the POLITICAL SYSTEM and thus never lead the audience to anti-system conclusions.But in Iran this case is nearly reversed and the element of system LEGITIMACY is almost absent. This shows recent changes in the Iranian society and the decreasing LEGITIMACY of the POLITICAL SYSTEM among the people, and also indicates the (conscious or unconscious) efforts of intellectuals for voicing their unfavorable views about the POLITICAL SYSTEM.This paper analyzes the content of several famous Iranian movies from the past decade and compares them with AMERICAN CINEMA. The aim is to study the social characteristics of protagonists in action and political movies from a sociological perspective and analyze the way they see the society and government through issues such as: passiveness of characters, blaming the political and social structure, explosive actions, the lack of faultless characters within the system who can solve problems, and the view toward law.Finally hypotheses about the causes of this absence in IRANIAN CINEMA are presented (including the negative behavior of the government toward intellectuals and filmmakers, the opposition of intellectuals and filmmakers to the government, effects of Marxist art on Iranian intellectuals, weaknesses in the government's monitoring and protection of effective and pro-system cinema), and the social and political consequences of this problem have been discussed.

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JAVADI YEGANEH, M.R.. (2009). ABSENCE OF SYSTEM LEGITIMACY IN IRANIAN CINEMA AND A COMPARISON WITH AMERICAN CINEMA. SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE, 1(1), 61-95. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/164069/en

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JAVADI YEGANEH M.R.. ABSENCE OF SYSTEM LEGITIMACY IN IRANIAN CINEMA AND A COMPARISON WITH AMERICAN CINEMA. SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE[Internet]. 2009;1(1):61-95. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/164069/en

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M.R. JAVADI YEGANEH, “ABSENCE OF SYSTEM LEGITIMACY IN IRANIAN CINEMA AND A COMPARISON WITH AMERICAN CINEMA,” SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 61–95, 2009, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/164069/en

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