Abstract
Background and Aim: The cinema by using the language of the image, is capable of creating social recognition in the audience. The cinema of Iran, by providing a different image of the disabled in the sixties, led to the formation of a new approach to disability in Iranian society. With the distinctive social and cultural features of the past decades, this cinema led to the domination of the empathic discourse of disability. In this paper, the main purpose was to provide a way of forming a discursive articulation in the cinema of disability in the sixties, using the Laclau and Mouffe discourse approach.
Material and methods: The main method of research is the discourse analysis method using Laclau Mouffe's post-structuralist approach, which is among the methods of qualitative analysis. Laclau Mouffe considers the articulation as a main process of the formation of meaning in the system of language signs and Discourses help to dominate or reject a particular social approach using broadly linguistic capacities. Meanwhile, the cinema, with the use of special linguistic approaches, is helping to strengthen or weaken the status of a disabled minority. In this paper, using a non-intrusive purposeful sampling method, two films of Davoudi flowers from Rasoul Sadr Amali and the mother's film from Ali Hatami were analyzed.
Results: The dominant discourse of Iran's sixties cinema was the sympathy and supportive discourse that concepts such as admission, education, fidelity, agency, independence, and positive image of the body were among the elements that surrounded the core of sympathy with discursive signs in interlacing The cinema was transformed into the sixties, and in addition to this dominant discourse, the sanitarium discourse was also formed.
Conclusion: The cinema of the sixties of Iran, using the Laclau and Mouffe discourse approach and centered on the main core of empathy, has marginalized passivity and social exclusion, leading to hegemonic domination of supportive discourse.