ideology net
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Ideology
Define ideology
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Ideology
A body of ideasreflecting the socialneeds andaspirations of anindividual, group,class or culture
These are present inany humanenterprise includingfilmmaking
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Art to give pleasure
vs. art to teach
Examples Documentary
Propaganda
Commercials
Pretty Woman
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Even the most light-
hearted film has an
ideologicalperspective - one
side is right, more
attractive than the
other
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What varies in films
is how explicit the
ideology ispresented
Leni Riefenstahl directing
Triumph of the Will
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Ideology
Neutral
Entertainment for
entertainments sake
Harold & Kumar
Go to White Castle
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Implicit
Slanted but nobody
spells out the moralof the story
Must infer what
characters stand for
Majority of films
Splash
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Explicit
Job is to teach and
persuade besidesentertain
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Stars can tell us
what the value
system of a film is
Dirty Harry
Training Day
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Left - Center- Right
Philadelphia, Cinema Paradiso & Rambo
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Ideology Left
Collective and communal
Human behavior is learned and can be changed
Flexible in judgments
Religion & sex are private - often skeptical or critical of organizedreligion
Future = hope
Cooperative effort to make progress
Identify with poor and disenfranchised - romanticize gangsters &
outsiders Global perspective
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Right Emphasize the difference among people - respect authority
Character is inherited
Absolute in judgment Religion accorded privileged status
Veneration of the past
Open market and competition as opposed to collective effort
Identify with the establishment
Patriotic
Family is sacred
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Ideology
Other factors:
Culture
Censored in the
Middle East:
Syriana &Brokeback Mountain
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Ideology Other factors:
Religion
The Last Temptation of Christ, & The Chronicles of Narnia & The Passion of
the Christ
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Other factors:
Ethnicity
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Other factors:
Feminism
Thelma & Louise
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Other factors:
LBGT Sensibility
As Good As It Gets, The L Word, The Talented Mr. Ripley
& To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
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Tone
Manner of
presentation and
general atmosphere
Elf
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Acting style
Genre
Voice-over
Music
L.A. Confidential &
Battle of Algiers
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Acting style
Genre
Voice-over Music
Goodfellas &
Dances with Wolves
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Ideology Degree of explicitness? How to tell the good guys from the bad?
Use of stars?
Cinematic techniques?
Is protagonist left, center or right? Cultural values?
Ethnicity?
Religion?
Sex? Women?
Genre conventions?
Does the film reinforce the characters beliefs or mock
them?
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Ideology
Network, 1976Directed by Sidney Lumet & written
by Paddy Chayefsky, both of whom
worked extensively in television - not
a satire according to themFilm starts out looking like a
documentary and get slicker as it
goes alongUnited Artists thought the film too
controversial but ended up co-
producing it w/MGMOne of two films to win three Oscars
for Acting - also won Best
ScreenplayPeter Finchs role declined by Gene
Hackman & Henry Fonda