Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Farshad Goudarzi ¹
• Gholamreza Tajbakhsh ²
• Reza Kavand ³

¹ Ph.D. Student in Iranian Social Issues, Faculty of Law and Humanities, Kashan University, Kashan Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Ayatollah Boroujerdi University, Borujerd, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Ayatollah Boroujerdi University, Borujerd, Iran.

Abstract

Representing the questions and problems of human society is one of the most important tasks of cinema. One of the most important issues that Canadian filmmakers have addressed over the past decade has been the issue of lower-income women and their issues. This article aims to investigate how the problems of lower-class women are represented in the country’s cinema. The theoretical framework of this research is composed of two theories of feminism, which is the main theory in the field of women’s studies, and the theory of representation, which plays an important role in media studies. In this article, the film “Red Nail Lacquer” was studied using John Fisk’s semiotic method and analytical model and targeted sampling. The results of this study show that at the level of reality, the film, by examining social codes, introduced women from the lower classes of society. At the level of representation, by means of technical codes, by means of technological tools, the problems of this class try to transmit feelings and to create twins. He has an audience with the characters and at the ideological level of the film, he has dealt with issues such as patriarchy, prohibition of women’s employment, forced marriage, responsibility and commitment, and resistance to the problems that concern women in this class.

Keywords

• cinema
• lower class
• representation
• semiotics
• women