Abstract
Iran entered a new structuring process after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The impact of the revolution, which has an Islamic identity, on cinema has been extremely decisive in the process of positioning and shaping the cinema. The restrictions imposed on cinema within the framework of Islamic measures paved the way for the emergence of original products, and in some periods, cinema was used as an ideological device. Especially during the Iraq-Iran War, the Islamic Republic regime saw the cinema as a mass propaganda tool and encouraged young directors to work in this field. During the war period, mainly focused on certain themes, stories about the front and back of the facade were brought to the movies. Iranian cinema, which started with the 1980s and gave many products about the war, was analyzed through the films by Hatemikiya, and the role of the war, which started in the post-revolutionary process, was determined by literature review. In this context, the films of Hatamikia, which are included in the sample of the study, were categorized and transferred by critical discourse analysis by using the ideological devices of the state and the discourses and scenes to convey the dominant ideology. When the characters and stories of the films in the study are examined, it is seen that the directors were encouraged to this field with the influence of the regime on the cinema since the first years of the war and the construction of an “identity” cinema was aimed.