Womanhood in Iran is a construct influenced by cultural, social, and patriarchal structures, with the hijab playing a central role in defining female identity. The veil symbolizes control, reducing women from subjects to objects. Iranian cinema reflects and reinforces this representation, normalizing the hijab in viewers' minds. While filmmakers face censorship, many, like Asghar Farhadi, actively challenge dominant visual narratives, creating narratives that confront the constraints imposed by the patriarchal visual order.
In Iran, hijab constitutes a central part of patriarchal structure, where women are defined through the hijab, reducing them from subjects to objects.
Iranian cinema represents and reinforces the hijab, becoming normalized in viewer's imagination, with women on screen defined through their mythical halos.
The enforced representation of hijab has evolved into a visual, cultural, and aesthetic code, determining what is permissible on screen in Iranian films.
Filmmakers like Asghar Farhadi challenge the masculine structure of visual language and engage with the restrictions imposed by compulsory hijab.
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