Hollywood and Representation of Iranophobia in Its Analysis of the Events of November 4, 1979 (an Analysis of the Movie "Argo")

Today, the media try to represent what they want, not what is true. Therefore, the gap between reality and what is presented in the media is behind the many attempts which have been made to show how and why the representation of outside world by the media takes form. The present paper, which is concerned with Hollywood's representation of Iranophobia, tires to analyze and criticize the movie "Argo", which won "Oscar" in 2013, using John Fisk's semiotics. The findings that this movie distorts the facts about the event of November 4, 1979 and about Iranian's culture and conduct, and tries to picture the Iranians as violent, irrational and semi-wild. This paper investigates the cultural, technological and ideological symbolism used in this film