Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Milad Nourian Ramsheh ¹
• Hamed Nourian Ramsheh ²
• Hourieh Dehghanshad ³

¹ Master of Cultural and Media Studies, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Islamic Azad University.

² Ph.D. Student Political Sociology, Faculty of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Communication Sciences and Media Studies, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the Glass Agency movie directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia in order to critique the discourse of the government at the time of making this film, in the seventies. The authors used the method of qualitative analysis of content and, by identifying the components of governmental discourse, explore the contexts of political criticism in cinema in the 1970s. The Glass Agency is also one of the most important films in this area in the 1970s with strong political themes. In the post-war years between Iran and Iraq, he ruled the country with an economic development vision. In the film The Glass Agency, Ebrahim Hatamikia uses this question as a starting point and criticizes the performance of the government. This study shows that the critique of political discourse in Hatamikia’s film is explicitly used against the policies of the country in the post-war years and examines the context of political and social conflicts in the country.

Keywords

• semiotics
• qualitative content analysis
• Glass Agency movie
• political criticism