İletişimsel Perspektiften İran Filmlerinin Kültürleşme Stratejileri Bağlamında İncelenmesi: Baran ve Bisikletçi Filmleri

The concept of culture represents the values of a society and evolves through interaction with different cultures over time, leading to acculturation. Acculturation occurs due to different cultural groups establishing relationships with each other.This process leads to integration, assimilation, separation, and marginalization strategies.In our study, acculturation strategies are examined through cinema, which plays an active role in intercultural communication and is considered a reflection of society.In this context, Iranian cinema plays a significant role by cinematically portraying the difficulties, struggles, and efforts of Afghan immigrants to establish a new life. This study takes Muhsin Mahmelbaf's "The Cyclist" and Majid Majidi's "Baran" as references, which objectively reflect the experiences of Afghan immigrants in Iran.To serve the purpose of the study, document analysis, a qualitative research method, was employed, and "The Cyclist" and "Baran" were selected from films addressing Afghan immigrants for examination.The scenes from the movie were systematically organized through content analysis, and they were descriptively analyzed within the context of cultural strategies including assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization stages.According to the findings, the films "The Cyclist" and "Baran" predominantly feature the integration strategy.Simultaneously, scenes depicting separation strategies were less prevalent in both films, indicating the directors' inclination towards integration.Scenes related to the assimilation strategy were more prominent in "The Cyclist”. Furthermore, it is a significant finding that both films equally feature scenes related to the marginalization strategy.