Journal of Woman in Culture and Arts

Journal of Woman in Culture and Arts

The Function of Androgyny as a Mask in the Characterization of the Female Characters in the Iranian Cinema: A Study of the Movies of "The Blue Scarf" and "Transit Café"

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari 1
Aniss Naseri 2
1 Associate Professor, Department of Performing Arts, University of Tehran
2 MA Student of Cinema, University of Tehran
10.22059/jwica.2018.246677.981
Abstract
Sexual identity, as a culture based issue, can be regarded as a founding stone for many social inequalities. People (no matter men or women) have to borrow some features of the opposite sex in order to get along with some imposed situations of its surroundings, and wear the mask of another sex in order to solve some of its problems. This, however, may establish those features in the mind of the person, and change its sex typing in the long run. Androgyny takes place when such masks represent the male and female essence at the same time. This article aims to find out when the (female) characters of films tend to make use of Androgyny as a mask, and how they turn to androgenic characters. This article has made use of the theoretical framework of Sandra Bem named Psychological Androgyny, together with Goffman's Dramaturgical Analysis. We have also attempted to study two films named "The Blue Scarf" (1994) and "Transit Cafe" (2004), to show the impacts of the society in forming a psychological androgyny in the sexuality of female characters in these films. The results show that these women have resorted making use of the androgenic mask in order to get their basic social rights, and have gradually turned to androgenic characters.
Keywords
iranian cinema
sexual identity
androgyny
mask
Subjects
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Journal of Woman in Culture and Arts
Volume 10, Issue 3
Autumn 2019
Pages 311-331