Abstract:
Political Cinema is defined as a "political event", a "biography", or
"process". Such a definition is, however, not inclusive enough to cover
the films which focus on the normative aspects of politics without
necessarily narrating a special political issue. By reviewing Abbas
Kiarostami’s films, this article attempts to revise the definition of
political cinema and propose the notion of normative political cinema.
Machine summary:
As a result, we can claim that political cinema might include films that are concerned with presenting the favorable social order and good political order based normative concepts.
Films which rely on one or two normative categories to present the “possibility” of favorable social life are among those films which possess the implications and significance of political cinema.
J. Humanities (2014) Vol. 21(1) normative knowledge that attempts to present good political order to society; in addition, it will be analyzed the political implications of Kiarostami’s cinema.
(1987), Close-Up (1990), The Homework (1989), Life and Nothing More (1991), Under the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) are among Kiarostami’s successful films which, by focusing on the social-human relations in a normative form, present the possibility of favorable life for members of society next to each other.
By adopting a phenomenological approach to different aspects of the educational structure of the society (both in family and the school institution), Kiarostami intends to present a metaphysical and a cultural image, or in other words “a precultural alternative to reality” (Dabashi, 2001: 63).
“Ethics of resistance” is a norm that Michel Foucault suggests for the good order of society and it revolves around rejecting the widespread definition 155 Political Implications of Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema Intl.
” He even suggests that the death of the girl’s parents in the 1990 earthquake in Roudbar was the result of their rejection of his marriage proposal explaining, “If they had said yes, they might have not suffered this fate; this earthquake was God’s punishment!” He talks 157 Political Implications of Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema Intl.