![]() ![]() ![]() Using van Leeuwen’s approach in critical discourse analysis (2008), this paper is aimed at analyzing this film as a media text. They look like the sexy dancers in nightclubs and discothèques. In contrast to the Spartan women who are free, brave, kind mothers and faithful wives, the Iranian women are represented as slavish, lustful, indecent, and homosexual. ![]() For example, women are depicted as erotic objects. In this battle, Leonidas the Spartan King and his small army of 300 men heroically confront the invasion of the vast Persian army. In this comic series, Miller masterfully captures the historic battle of Thermopylae. This film is full of cultural stereotypes on the Eastern and Iranian culture, in particular, their identity. 300 graphic novel by Frank Miller marvelously recount the one of the most spectacular moment of battlefield valor in history. The Western or American youths should think that just like the brave and devoted Spartan soldiers in 300, they also fight for democracy, freedom, and glory. Frank Millers graphic novel treatment of the Battle of Thermopylae serves one main purpose-to remind an entertainment-prone public of the heroic stand of a. Connecting war with collective memory, 300 brings war to the heart of everyday life. The film is another example for ‘warfare-ization’ of public sphere and envisioning war as part of the people’s everyday life using pop culture products in U.S. From my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an Iranophobic discourse, produced by Hollywood. During the era of Bush administration and post-September 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between Hollywood pop culture products and the neoconservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. ![]()
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