Iranian Association of Cultural Studies & Communication Society Culture Media 2322-3855 7 29 2019 01 21 Culture Industry, Film, Critical Discourse Analysis, Religious Film, Sadr Mehr Culture Industry, Film, Critical Discourse Analysis, Religious Film, Sadr Mehr 51 77 99089 FA Zohreh Alikhani Tehran University Journal Article 2019 12 15 e idea that the basis of social totality can be analyzed in the image as the seemingly trivial matter of the partial totality, this study examines the status of religion in contemporary Iran in the context of cinema. The main focus and approach in this article is on the critical views of the Frankfurt School on culture and cinema. To this end, one of the most beloved religious films of recent years has been analyzed with a view to the Frankfurt School's views on culture and the media, as well as to the critical approach of "critical discourse analysis" in language. Therefore, after an analytical overview of Adorno and Benjamin's views on the culture and cinema industry and considering that in the Critical Discourse of Critical Discourse Analysis, discourse analysis alone is not capable of analyzing wider social practice and requires social theory, Video analysis is used. Describing, interpreting, and explaining the text of the Sabr-Mehr film, the three levels of textual and discursive practice and social practice have been used by Falklaf. One of the major results of the research is the dominance of commodity logic in religious films in particular, and the perception of religion in general, in the cultural industries e idea that the basis of social totality can be analyzed in the image as the seemingly trivial matter of the partial totality, this study examines the status of religion in contemporary Iran in the context of cinema. The main focus and approach in this article is on the critical views of the Frankfurt School on culture and cinema. To this end, one of the most beloved religious films of recent years has been analyzed with a view to the Frankfurt School's views on culture and the media, as well as to the critical approach of "critical discourse analysis" in language. Therefore, after an analytical overview of Adorno and Benjamin's views on the culture and cinema industry and considering that in the Critical Discourse of Critical Discourse Analysis, discourse analysis alone is not capable of analyzing wider social practice and requires social theory, Video analysis is used. Describing, interpreting, and explaining the text of the Sabr-Mehr film, the three levels of textual and discursive practice and social practice have been used by Falklaf. One of the major results of the research is the dominance of commodity logic in religious films in particular, and the perception of religion in general, in the cultural industries https://www.jscm.ir/article_99089_ed6795963a0408cc275f9531ba263491.pdf