Textual analysis of the martyr’s documentaries and recordings on the Egyptian Ministry of Defense channel on YouTube "An analytical study"

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Media and communication technology

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   The current study aimed to reveal the meanings of the film text by dividing it into parts that facilitate the analysis process and reveal the interconnections and internal relationships of the work. It also sought to identify the role of documentaries and their functions in communicating the goals of the work makers to the public on the Egyptian Ministry of Defense YouTube channel, using the tool for analyzing the cinematic text based on Kuentzel's approach to textual analysis of films, which divides the cinematic work into three distinct shots: the first: the film's title and its title, the second: the first spatial shot of the film, the third: everything that remains of the shot, to reveal the meanings of the text through Roland Barthes's five great codes (symbolism, Narrative, interpretive, formative visual, audio, and montage). The sample of the study was a deliberate sample of the martyr’s films that were broadcast on the Egyptian Ministry of Defense channel during the year 2023, namely (Leadership Triangle, Martyr Khaled, Hero, Beslam, Hero).
    The study concluded that the documentary film was relied upon as a tool for documenting and recording events and reformulating them in their realistic environment. The documentary film and documentary drama in this study also combined the media function, the propaganda function, and the documentary function of the Egyptian army forces by telling the viewer about the true heroes of the homeland and showing the extent of their love for their homeland and always on A willingness to bear martyrdom for his sake, to purify him of every enemy and traitor, and to use the documentary film as a tool for propaganda for the projects of the nation-state as well. The five great codes of Roland Barthes expressed the type of narrative, its goals, and the plastic, ideological, and dramatic symbols, as stated in the documentary drama of the films sampled in the study, and it also explained the interpretive symbol in each film. To predict the future events of the film and interpret them according to the data and vocabulary of documentary and documentary cinema, relying on the compositional, sound and montage elements as parts that help in reformulating the real events.

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