چکیده

The significant role of Hollywood, in particular, in disseminating information and creating images of the Iranian history, as a powerful social tool is evident. Although critical analysis of the movie discourse is a fashionable trend among the critical discourse analysts, there is a paucity of research on movie discourse in Iran. Besides, the increasing number of the anti-Iranian movies produced in the last decade and the ongoing rate of tension between Iran and west, have raised the need for conducting a research to investigate the images of Iranians represented in the Western movies. Thus, in this article, 2 anti-Iranian movie called 300 and Alexander, have been critically analyzed using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). For this purpose, Van Dijk’s framework (2004) has been utilized to uncover the ideological manipulations and misrepresentations of these movies. The analysis revealed that the dichotomy of in-group favoritism vs. out-group derogation is a very effective discursive strategy at the disposal of the movie makers who have used language as a weapon to attack Iran by representing a distorted and unrealistic image of the Iranians’ history, culture and ideologies. The findings of the present study show, how Hollywood imposes its Persophobic ideology through its movies.

کليدواژه ها

Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Structures, Derogation, Euphemization, Hegemony, Ideology, Manipulation, Power

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Amir Hosein Maljaie , 1398 , A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Anti-Iranian images shown in Hollywood movies:A case study of 300 and Alexander , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي