Social explanation of gender reversal in Masoud Kimiaei's cinema

Masoud Kimiaei's cinema has been reread and interpreted many times due to its social and hero-raising approach. Male and female characters in alchemy films establish significant relationships with each other and with their living environment. In these works, the characterization of women is controversial in many ways. In fact, the female characters of Alchemy cinema, while they have a dramatic function, but it seems that their identity is defined next to the identity of the male heroes. In other words, in his works, the woman is in a secondary position and the man becomes a privileged character. The women in these films do not have an independent female character; And most of these women, depending on the man, assume single and identical roles such as ethereal lover, patient lover, honor, kind wife or mother, etc. and they have an objective appearance in all the works of this filmmaker. In the last few decades, gender studies have become one of the thought processes and the category of gender has been placed in the center of these studies in society, culture and art. The distinction between sex and gender is one of the most important topics in the social discourse of the 20th century. Gender is a structural and social phenomenon that is built in society over time. It seems that the alchemical approach towards women can be interpreted from the perspective of gender and of course gender reversal. The current research, which was conducted in a qualitative and descriptive-analytical way, with the help of library sources and watching the film, analyzes the approach to the characterization of women in alchemy cinema by explaining the category and theory of gender. Male and female characters in alchemy films establish significant relationships with each other and with their living environment. In these works, the characterization of women is controversial in many ways. In fact, the female characters of Alchemy cinema, while they have a dramatic function, but it seems that their identity is defined next to the identity of the male heroes. In these works, the characterization of women is controversial in many ways.