The paradigmatic pattern of moral themes in sacred defense cinema

The present study seeks to identify the paradigmatic pattern of moral themes in the sacred defense cinema that has been formed through the production of Movies of this period in Iran. In this study, quantitative content analysis method has been used. For this purpose, in addition to the documents that clarify the situation of the Holy Defense cinema in Iran, the content analysis of the purposeful samples of the prominent Movies of the Holy Defense cinema in the last four decades (60, 70, 80 and 90) has been used. The findings showed that according to the category of Movies, the most attention was paid to War Movies and the least attention was paid to war comedy cinema. The moral themes of the Movies are more focused on professional ethics, such as self-sacrifice, and social and individual ethics are inferior.