%0 Journal Article %T THE CRITICAL PRESENTATION OF FASCISM IDEOLOGY IN CINEMA: ¡°OMAR MUKHTAR LION OF THE DESERT¡± FILM AND SEMIOTICS ANALYSIS %J - %D 2018 %X In this study, 1981 USA-Libyan co-production film Omar Mukhtar Lion of the Desert, produced and directed by Mustafa Akkad, was examined under the semiotic analysis. The film was prepared with a large budget, funded by Libyan President Muammer Gaddafi. The film focuses on the struggle of the Libyan people, who started under the leadership of Omer Mukhtar during the occupation of Libya by the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. This study was based on the semiotic model of the famous French semiotist, Roland Barthes. Barthes attempted to explain the basic ideology in the film by interpreting clear and confidential messages to be given in the context of connotation and denotation. When the findings were evaluated, it was seen that the ideology of fascism was seriously exposed to criticism in the film, and the people of Libya who financed the film were presented as heroes defending their homelan %K Fa£¿izm %K Sinema %K G£¿stergebilim %K £¿deoloji %K Roland Barthes %U http://dergipark.org.tr/injoss/issue/37521/433563