Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 student

2 Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

3 AJA University of Medical Sciences

4 Assistant professor,Department of social communication sciences,Islamic Azad university,East Tehran Branch,Iran

Abstract

"Mental disorders", as a multifaceted phenomenon and a socio-cultural issue, is one of the most challenging subjects in cinema and television. This study intends to extract from the existing discourses in this field, the cultural approach represented in the films of the Iranian director "Hooman Seyedy". In this study, discourse analysis with "Pedam" approach is the method used for cultural representation of mental disorders. The results of this analysis show that Hooman seyedy, has chosen common features such as unusual behavior, clothing style and appearance different from the norm of society, their distrust of others and inability to interact healthy and a kind of loneliness and isolation of these people from society " for characters with mental disorders in his films as cultural characteristics to represent. The subject of "mental disorder" is portrayed as the main discourse of the films to portray the confusion of human nature in today's society.

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