Romantic narration of Cyrus in Persian language media productions; The case study of the animated sequence "Manam Korosh..." of the Manoto TV

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Department of Social Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

10.22034/scart.2026.141859.1587

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The Cyrus myth was shaped by centuries of storytelling, political propaganda, and the tendency to present an image of an ideal king. These characteristics can be seen in written sources throughout history (from historical sources to classical narratives and the Bible). This historical figure is known as one of the most important figures of the Iranian diaspora in confronting the official narrative of the Islamic Republic about history. In recent years, the attention to the myth of Cyrus has become more prominent and in a way it has become the conflict field of the historical narrative between the two currents of Iran and Islam. By highlighting the image of Cyrus in the past years, foreign media (such as VAEA, BBC Farsi, Menoto and International) are somehow trying to introduce him as a figure opposed to the political trend ruling Iran. Therefore, in the past years, through the mediation of the media and especially the network and social media, extensive cultural (media) productions have been made and distributed about the personality of Cyrus. In this research, by combining Fisk's semiotics method, discourse analysis and purposeful sampling method, 9 sequences of this sequence animation were selected. The themes identified in this sequential animation are: original and attributed justice and rule, nobility, anti-superstition, liberating, settlement in harmony with nature, security and military ingenuity, political romanticism, integration, tolerance, scholarship, art lover, border guard, cosmopolitanism.

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Sociology of Culture and Art

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Available Online from 19 August 2026

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