A Study of Cinema Policies in Iran with the Focus on National Cinema (1979-2013)

The purpose of this article is to study the cinema policies after the Islamic Revolution with a focus on national cinema. The main question is to what extent cinema policies in Iran are based on the idea and principle of growth and development of national cinema and have been in line with it? For this purpose, according to Susan Hayward's theory, seven indicators of national cinema are adopted and will be analyzed the cinema policies that are announced and implemented through the policy booklets in each period by the deputy director of cinema. Findings show that these policies are more focused on codes and conventions, narrative and genre, respectively. The lowest indicators were the star as signs, gestural and morphology, and cinema of the center and cinema of the periphery. These findings show that the header of cinematic policies has paid less attention to the characteristics of the national cinema after the Islamic Revolution. Adopted policies are centralist policies and generally "monitoring, directing and advocacy policies", and does not allow much room for audience-centered policies as well as differentiation policies such as marginal cinema.