THE ANALYSIS OF THE DISCOURSE OF IRANIAN HUMANIST REALISM CINEMA: THE CASE OF ASGHAR FARHADI’S WORKS

Abstract. Coincided with the advent of modernity in Iran, humanism-based realism was associated with the formation of a new wave of cinema in Iran. The works of Asghar Farhadi as the third-generation of the intellectual cinema in Iran, which is the pride of world-renowned festivals, includes the components that can be called humanistic realism. Human-centeredness as the nodal point of individualism, moralism, and minus God, is an exaggerated epresentation of the contradictory problems and ethics of the middle class of society, which is at the heart of the transition from tradition to modernity, and has raised the western utopia of modernism as an ideal community. Negatively representing the religion and the religious group in society, he seeks to promote freedom, individualism, common ethics minus religion, tolerance, relativism and feminist thinking in society. Emphasizing the problems of Iranian society in a realistic space, he seeks social critique on the axis of humanism. The present article deals with disourse analysis of the works of Asghar Farhadi as the most prominent intellectual filmmaker after the Revolution.Keywords: Humanistic Realism, Salesman, Separation, Intellectual cinema, Asghar Farhadi