Evaluating the State Approvals about Cinema (1989 to 2009)

The present study aimed to study and evaluate the state approvals in the field of cinema within the years 1989 to 2009 in Iran. The cabinet approvals in these years within their titles or texts the keywords related to cinema were used (106 approvals) have shaped the research domain. The method of this research was content analysis and the instrument used was a checklist with r= 0.91 using Scott formula. The content analysis checklist was constructed based on the model which classified arts policies into four types namely: facilitator, patron, architect and engineer. The findings revealed that in the investigated twenty-year process, the various states having come in 4-year intervals have been different in using the types of arts policies. The state in the first and second presidency of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani used the facilitator and engineer types; in the first presidency of Mohammad Khatami used the patron and architect types, in his second presidency the architect type; and finally in the first presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the architect and engineer types more than the other types. Although there has been a difference between the types of arts policy in the cinema approvals in different periods of presidency, the architect and engineer types of arts policies have been used more than the facilitator and patron types