Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critical Review on the Book Secrets of Separation: Asghar Farhadi’s Cinema

Document Type : Research

Authors

Alireza Taheri 1
Hamed Karimi Afshar 2

1 Professor of the Department of Comparative and Analytical History of Islamic Art, Faculty of Theoretical Sciences and Higher Art Studies, Tehran University of Art, Tehran, Iran

2 MA in Art Research, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2021.32844.1971
Abstract
In the book Secrets of Separation: Asghar Farhadi's Cinema, Saeed Aghighi evaluates the narrative structure of Farhadi's films one by one, from his first film to The Seller. In his book, he focuses on introducing and analyzing the narrative patterns of stories and criticizing the characters in Asghar Farhadi's films, and comparing them with classical patterns and realistic modern cinema. In addition, it has a brief overview of visual elements, and principles of filmmaking, as well as some psychological and especially sociological analyses related to Asghar Farhadi's films. The lack of coherence, especially in the large volume of descriptions and the dispersion of analytical materials, in addition to technical-specialist defects, such as not observing the modern principles of book writing, the variability of written grammar, and the use of inappropriate specialized terms, along with the unscientific nature of research theories and assumptions, and Also, the lack of theoretical foundations does not raise the criticisms of this book to a level between a number of relatively good journalistic reviews and a number of incomplete expert analyses. Another problem of the book is the author's focus on the theme, narration, characterization, etc. in such a way that the content related to the visual presentation of the filmmaker does not have the necessary quantity and quality, and it does not seem to satisfy the audience looking for these topics.

Keywords

Asghar Farhadi
Film Criticism
Iranian Cinema
Screenplay
Secrets of Separation

Subjects

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بالاش، بلا (1376)، تئوری فیلم، ترجمۀ کامران ناظرعمو، تهران: دانشگاه هنر.
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  • Receive Date 30 December 2022
  • Revise Date 04 April 2023
  • Accept Date 24 April 2023

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