An Analysis of the Disabled People's Perception of the Images Representing Them in the Cinema

This research is conducted to analyze the perception of people with mobility impairment of the images representing them in 3 movies: M like Mother (directed by Rasool Mollagholi Poor), Beautiful City (Asghar Farhadi) and A Time to Love (Ebrahim Forouzesh). The audience of this thesis are the disabled people who have both the hearing and eyesight impairment. Therefore, the blind, the deaf, the mentally impaired and other handicapped ones that cannot use these organs simultaneously, are not considered. Applying the Perception Analysis approach in cultural studies framework, this research is an attempt to understand the way aforementioned audience perceive the content of these movies which are about the impairement phenomenon or represent disable people.
Furthermore, the authors used the Grounded Theory analysis to categorize the findings appropriately. Thus, we tried to answer the question that how the impaired people perceive these movies. With a qualitative methodology approach, we used both the deep interview and participant observation techniques. The findings demonstrate that the audience perceive the movies in different ways and one of the main ones is gender oriented. So, they participate actively in the perception and recreation the meaning processes. We presented the finding in some categories such as commiseration, the impossibility of marriage, the companionship of the disability with holy matters and etc.