Space and Social Justice: A Cinematic Narrative of Spatial Separation Based on Roland Barthes' Five Codes (Bong Joon-ho's Parasite) | ||
| هنرهای کاربردی | ||
| Volume 5, Issue 4 - Serial Number 20, December 2025, Pages 17-32 PDF (533.08 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.22075/aaj.2025.34891.1281 | ||
| Author | ||
| Farhad Barandak* | ||
| Ph.D. Graduate, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Planning and Environmental Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. | ||
| Receive Date: 29 July 2024, Revise Date: 13 March 2025, Accept Date: 15 March 2025 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Cities have become more and more a place where the phenomena of extreme poverty, social destruction, and social isolation are concentrated. It should be mentioned that the social inequalities reflected in the processes of urban segregation have been the subject of growing literature in the world. It should be mentioned that the social inequalities reflected in the processes of urban segregation have been the subject of growing literature in the world. The turn toward human practice and the analysis of spatial behavior has become one of the most fundamental categories in contemporary spatial understanding. This renewed conception of space—along with the interweaving of social life with linguistic systems—has led to an increasing integration of art and literature with the sciences in general, and with the social sciences in particular. Our assumption and insight in the article is based on the principle that deterministic science and knowledge of a geographical phenomenon such as separation is always related to art and philosophy. The necessity of spatial separation representation in the use of the artistic method is shown in this way that the work of art always brings together the understanding of the problem by solving or problematizing the problem by combining the two elements of consciousness/unconsciousness as well as the status quo/ideal. In the current research, we investigate the problem of spatial separation by using the qualitative approach and Roland Barthes' five codes. The question of the present article is, what is the representation of urban separation in the film Parasite, under the use of Roland Barthes' Five Codes? The main theme of this cinematic narrative of separatism can be seen in the understanding of cities as the existential arena of discourse/power. Here, by deconstructing the symbolic/real dualities, the representation of justice and the issue of urban separation takes on a postmodern cognitive flavor. It keeps us active in facing this phenomenon. A situation in which different narratives engage in a conversation where there is no possibility of the superiority of a narrative except for its general understanding and meaning by the people. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Justice; Separation; Roland Barthes; Code Semiotics; Parasite; Michel Foucault | ||
| Main Subjects | ||
| Arts and Urban Design | ||
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