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Structures in Crisis: A Narrative Approach to Asghar Farhadi’s Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2022

Aarón Rodríguez Serrano Open the ORCID record for Aarón Rodríguez Serrano [Opens in a new window]
Aarón Rodríguez Serrano*
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Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
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Abstract

This paper proposes an exploration of the films of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. It employs a methodology based on textual analysis, focusing specifically on the structural design of his films and the focalization processes of his scripts. It shows how Farhadi’s work can be understood as a coherent research project with a uniquely solid model based on chronological linearity as a way to explore the violent breakdown of different emotional communities: families, marriages, groups of friends, etc. At the same time, it considers how all the focalization processes in his films are oriented toward two main concepts: knowledge (of the characters, but also of the audience) and pain (of living in a [narrative] world afflicted by meaninglessness).

Keywords

Iranian CinemaAsghar FarhadiAudiovisual NarrativeStructuralismTextual Analysis
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Iranian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 5-6 , December 2020 , pp. 911 - 924
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2020

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Footnotes

This work was supported by Universitat Jaume I—Project: Análisis de identidades discursivas en la era de la posverdad. Generación de contenidos audiovisuales para una Educomunicación Crítica (AIDEP). Directed by Javier Marzal Felici. Code: 18I390.01/1.

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