Ideology And Film Culture Analysis

Hictor Rodriguez, in his “Ideology and Film Culture”, compares one-sided ideologies and assertions such as “women are less rational than men” which are partly constituted by contexts of discrimination and social practices to the act of watching only a single scene from a given movie. Watching the ending, solely, would certainly enable one to follow the dialogue and perhaps what the characters are doing, but the movie would not make sense and the action would not be understood in the same manner it would have been when watching the entire movie. (264) For Rodriguez, ideologies main characteristic is often being transformed into truth-claims; this feature, however, does not make them truth-claims. In the same article, Rodriguez invokes the ideas of Noel Carroll and Ronald de Sosa concerning the political implications of the cinema and the way they employ “paradigm scenarios that are embodied in the stories people create, disseminate, and consume.” The power of these scenarios lies in the way they are linked to sets of emotions. Different paradigms in connection to ways of feeling shape the viewers’ emotional attitudes. Watching a little Muslim kid trying to throw a grenade at a

However, and especially when it comes to movie production, interpretations are most often limited within the given illustrations, images, the mises-en-scene, the scripts, and the narratives. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing deals with the different cultural representations and mainly with the notions of ‘voyerism’ and the ‘gaze’ analyzing the differences between the ways men and women and perceived and looked at in a work of art. Women appear while men act and men look while women watch themselves being looked at. According to Berger, “the ideal spectator is always assumed to be male and the images of the women are designed to flatter