Comparative Analysis Between the Cinema of Yılmaz Güney and Dariush Mehrjui A Contextual Analysis of two Films: Hope and The Cow

This comparative study analyzes two films of two important Author directors of Iran and Turkey; Dariush Mehrjui and Yılmaz Güney to investigate the probable similarities between their cinematic languages and attitudes. For this purpose; Gav (The Cow, Dariush Mehrjui, 1969) and Umut (Hope, Yılmaz Güney, 1970) are sociological analyzed based on Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration. Using contextual analysis and making visual and content codes from both films, the current research intends to find out any common obvious and hidden meanings through decoding them. As a result, it leads to find out similar and close perception of concepts such as society, culture, identity, political activity and critique of Hegemony in their both cinema languages which can be seen on the named films and it proves that there were same problems in the both society at that historical stage and also there are social and cultural connections between two countries.