Reflection of the function of sacred defense cinema in scientific literature; A systematic review of cinematic scientific-research works of the Holy Defense

Holy Defense cinema is one of the most popular cinematic genres, which due to its importance, has also attracted the attention of the academic community and scientific articles have been written in this field. The purpose of this article is to systematically review the existing scientific works related to the sacred defense cinema and the main question of the article is this; How is the performance of sacred defense cinema reflected in the scientific literature? To answer this question, the method of systematic review of literature according to Prisma review was used and 20 scientific articles were reviewed using the mentioned method. The results show that the method of data collection in research in this field is documentary. Although this approach meets some research needs, the field of sacred defense cinema also requires interviewing tools. Also, most of the researches were descriptive in terms of purpose, which is the simplest and most superficial research method. Regarding research strategies, case and historical study has been used a lot and the correlation strategy is less and most of the research is survey. In terms of research environment, most articles are presented as libraries; Hence, most articles lack statistical findings; Therefore, "reflecting the performance of sacred defense cinema in the scientific literature" is a topic that needs further study. As a result, the pace of production of scientific resources on sacred defense, despite its capacity, is not good, and there is little literature on the performance of sacred defense cinema.