فصلنامه مطالعات فرهنگی و ارتباطات
پیاپی 34 (بهار 1393)

Directed by Masoud Dehnamaki, the trilogy Ekhrajiha (literally meaning outcasts) the best-selling in the history of not only Iran-Iraq war movies, but also Iranian cinema sparked off considerable debate among directors, producers, actors and intellectuals over the truth or falsity of its critical value. In order to diagnose the psychic economy of its viewers, this article makes a symptomatic reading of the trilogy on the basis of Jacques Lacan’s and Slavoj Zizek’s theories. Dehnamaki desubstantializes the Iran-Iraq war through thecomic narration of traumatic events of the contemporary history of Iran. That is why the popularity of his trilogy indicates the desire of Iranian audiences to forget the war period. If, as Zizek believes, desubstantialization of reality is the basic feature of postmodern society, Dehnamaki’s trilogy is a good example of postmodern cinema of war.

This Paper focuses on the role of social status in life satisfaction. According to theoretical bases, group and people's social position which has formed from economical and social status, ability of control of life, life associations and lifestyle, can be considered as one of the explanatory of life satisfaction. Thus, socioeconomic status and selective lifestyle, is connected to life satisfaction via mechanisms such as people's life associations and control of life. The consequences of such process in actor's social life will be life satisfaction. The experimental study has used survey method to considering mechanisms in relations between social position and life satisfaction and the needed information have obtained from questioners and interviewing with 390 people who are over 18 years old. The results have shown, although the relation between social positions and life satisfaction is in significant level in sample population, but people's social position increase their control of life via satisfied social relations and associations and it forms their selective life style and in the end, their life satisfaction.

Radio program production process includes idea planning to broadcast steps. A radio program maker through the different steps of the process, faces obstacles that make it difficult to plan and cause it not to obtain it’s supposed goals. This study tries to identify problems through reviewing current programming process from idea to program in Radio Department and proposes a desirable model which includes program requirements and mechanisms. The research method in this study is Grounded Theory and the method of data collecting is deep interviews with radio experts in radio department. The sampling method is snowball. The results have been proposed as “Program Production Process Management Mechanisms Model”.

Divorced women are one of the most vulnerable groups of people in society. This is not only because of negative aspects of divorce, but also because of gendered discriminative view toward their position after divorce. Therefore this study by applying qualitative approach and Grounded theory method and by using semi-structured qualitative interview technique with 18 divorced women in Tehran which got divorced more than one year, discovering the barriers of gendered culture toward post- divorce women’s social interactions and also the women’s strategies to deal with these barriers and finally the consequences of this problem in divorced women’s life. The finding show that discriminative gendered culture results the intensity of obstacles and pressures on divorced women’s social interactions in different ways, barriers which challenge their post-divorce life adjustment. These obstacles include blaming women, restricting their marriage opportunities, an objective view toward divorced women and limiting their occupation and new location. On the one hand women using different strategies to deal with these barriers such as hiding their divorce, efforts to social enhancement in other areas, remarriage and entering to new relationships, selecting converged interactive networks and avoiding non-converged interactive networks. This is while applying discriminative attitudes can result creating the consequences like decreasing social contribution and reduction of women’s social capital, declining their quality of life, increasing the feelings of social insecurity, relative deprivation, stigma, social exclusion and also increasing the likelihood of women’s engaging in social deviants and obliquities. The negative effects which not only engaged divorced women but also their children, friends and finally the whole of the society and also weaken family institution.

Violence has been present among people across the history. It is justified partly by physical superiority of men to act violently against women. However, the emergence of some new variables, such as change in family structure as well as the improvement of women's status in society, has changed the situation recently. In general, culture plays the main role in reducing violence against women and where it is silent the rate of the violence goes up. The false interpretation of religious believes, patriarchy, discrimination, etc, are factors which increasing the violence. Women from Tehran have experienced the violence. Moreover, a research shows that the rate of the violence among them is higher than the average of the country. This higher average is mostly related to their understanding of violence against women. That is to say, one certain act in other part of the country may mean as a nonviolent act while it could mean violence in Tehran. In most part of the country violence merely means a physical behavior while in Tehran people take bad words and speeches as a kind of violence. This essay surveys some books and articles on "violence against women" and puts this together with a survey carried on in Tehran and analyzes the female experience of violence.

Crime films reflect our ideas about fundamental social, economic, and political issues; Films constitute an ideal tool for probing the nature and causes of deviance. Crime films expose viewers to national (and even international) debates about the causes of crime. Films draw on popular criminological explanations and in turn embody these explanations, feeding them back to mass audiences. This paper studies how Iranian films explain crimes. I have analyzed 8 Iranian crime films made between 1377 and 1384 by qualitative content analysis method. The findings show that Iranian films explain crimes based on three criminological theory; psychological theory, sociological theory and rational action theory.

Journalism is an ethical profession within its very nature. Journalists are expected to scarify their own benefits in favor of the common good. Therefore, journalism ethics is regarded as one of the most sophisticated branches of professional ethics. This study considers an unethical trend in theIranian journalism in which big corporations employ journalists to promote their goods and services in -seemingly- impartial reports. Sample was chosenpurposive and the respondents were unaware of the aims of the interview. The results reveal that this method is highly common in Iran but the methods to pay the journalist are very complicated, making hard tracking advertorials in Iran.