Symbols And Images-the Construction Of The Figures Of Lower-class People In Samira Makhmalbaf’s Film

Samira Makhmalbaf is the few one of female Iran directors who have international reputation.Samira Makhmalbaf is the representative figure of Iran’s fourth generation director,in the meantime,she Is the second generation of Iran’s famed director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s eldest daughter.Samira in father film since 8 years old,and accept full film education in " Makhmalbaf Film House" which is founded by his father.At the age of 18,Samira Makhmalbaf landed the cannes film festival "a concern of competition "with the maiden movie "Apple" directed by her and become the most young director in cannes film festival history.In 2000,she directed the second personal works "blackboard" again for cannes,eventually won the jury special award.In 2003,Samira looked to stricken land in Afghanistan,and ultimately make the "five",won the jury prize again.Since Samira entered the international film industry,flowers and applause always aroud her.One of the Cannes judges said:"every time Samira came to cannes,the world film records was rewrited".As the leader of Iran’s fourth generation director and a member of,"Makhmalbaf Film House" Samira Makhmalbaf works with distinctive narrative style.The continuous attention of underlying people’s throughout the Samira film creation.Her film focusing on women living conditions because of the female is the disadvantaged groups under the patriarchal society,she recorded suffering,because Iran belongs to the third world countries which under the superpower supremacy,in a weak position in the international relations,people who are living on this land are suffering from the war.Her films focus on animals,because animals are at the bottom of the food chain compared to people,they are the significance of the people in her movie who was forced close to animals by the power.No matter how the image in her movie change,how their gender identity transformation,they are people or animals,both of they are Samira footnotes to the underlying social.She constructed a series of distinctive characters and animal imagery to record the underlying social suffering of Iran and express her rebellion and indictment of power.This article is based on Iranian history and social environment,customs,religious beliefs and Iranian film integral style,mainly from the construction of the underlying image interpretation to deeply explain the personal style of Samira Makhmalbaf,as well as her inheritance and breakthrough of the Iran’s movie.Paper is divided into four chapters:The first chapter is the research situation of this thesis and the basic framework of the paper.Mainly includes both at home and abroad about Samira Makhmalbaf film studies the veins of the situation analysis,the innovation of the paper,train of thought and basic content,and research the purpose and significance of this thesis.The second chapter reviews the artistic career of Samira Makhmalbaf,and narrates the era background of Samira film creation,and discusses the effect of the relaxed political environment and the record suffering tradition of " Makhmalbaf Film House" to Samira’s creation.Finally comb Samira works systematically in accordance with the time line.Third,four,five chapters are built to discuss Samira image classification,this paper is divided into three parts,including female image and male image and the animal images.The first is the Samira movie of the female image analysis,lists three kinds of important female image in the Samira movie,they are the victim,the mother alone doctrine myth of subversive and independent new woman,and briefly discusses from the perspective of religious and political status quo of Iranian women,analysis motive of the shape of this kind of image creation.Followed by Samira men in image analysis,to the age as a division,this paper discusses the Samira bring together three types of male image in the movie,cycle,unable to release the underlying male image is Samira castration writing to Iran’s patriarchal society.Finally,it is the animals in the Samira movie image analysis,this paper discusses the Samira animals in writing by the animals as a prospect to the fable,become the subject of the film rheological to animals.