The Semiology of Life Style in The Film of Abad-o Yek rouz Based on Eric Landowski’ s Pattern

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D. in Persian language and literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

2 Master student in public linguistics, Razi University, Kermanshah. Iran.

10.22124/ira.2023.24143.1002

Abstract

Introduction: Eric Landowski, a social semiologist from France, proposed a flexible generalized lifestyle pattern that presents a central group with a particular criterion based on this pattern. Around it are four lifestyle types: Snob, Dandy, Chameleon and Ours. Each has unique and different features and functions about the central group. This pattern can be an efficient instrument for discourse analysis of subjects in different narratives. The film of Abad- o Yek Rouz, directed and written by Saied Roustaee and produced by Saied Malekan (2015, includes the valuable products of cinema that belonged the time of the Islamic revolution of Iran in which a part of the way of life of a low-level family with its problems is shown. Various characters in this film have sign-whoions sign-updation to the central group called 'family.' These actions, based on Eric Landowki's lifestyle pattern, can present an accurate concept of the lifestyle analysis in this film; because of this, about the four lifestyle patterns of Eric Landowski, the quality of the subject's lifestyle and their approach in this film is studied and presented as an essential question. 
Goals and Research Questions: 1. About the similarity between the action structure of the subject in Abad- o Yek Rouz's film and the structure of Eric Landowski's lifestyle pattern, do the lifestyle of subjects in this film form in an integrated and homogeneous way or different and heterogeneous? 
2. Based on Eric Landowski's lifestyle pattern, what kind of approach, manner, and types do the subjects' lifestyle (s) have in the film Abad-o Yek Rouz?
Research Hypothesis: The hypothesis that is presented about mentioned states shows that, most probably, the sign-action structure of subjects in the film Abad- -o Yek Rouz, based on Landowki's pattern, can be analyzed and classified in the form of one central group and four heterogeneous lifestyles: Dandy, Snob, Chameleon and Ours and the approach of lifestyle in this film, more than anything is process and dynamic in which, the subject experience two or three lifestyles in the manner of stepwise. 
Research Literature: According to lots of studies and research in scientific and research websites and also studying the different articles and researches in this field, no research has been done about the subject's and character's 
lifestyle in the film Abad-o Yek Rouz based on Eric Landowski's lifestyle pattern, so fare. This article has studied this topic for the first time.  
Research Method: This research has formed with the descriptive-analytic method. It is based on the lifestyle pattern by Eric Landowski (French social semiologist), in which we try to define and explain the characters' lifestyles based on their sign-actions in the form of Landowki's pattern.
Research Results: The results of this research indicate that the characters' lifestyles in this film are formed differently; in between central lifestyle and our lifestyle have the most and the minor frequency and respect, and according to the results, the characters' lifestyle in this film in the most cases is process and dynamic; it means that about Landowski's lifestyle pattern, the lifestyle of characters changes during the film and subjects experience two or three lifestyles in the manner of stepwise, of course it is not going to that these changes always and necessarily be conformed with the moving of lifestyles in Eric Landowski's pattern.

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Interdisciplinary Researches of Art
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
December 2023
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  • Receive Date: 18 March 2023
  • Revise Date: 21 May 2023
  • Accept Date: 21 May 2023
  • Publish Date: 28 December 2023

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