FILM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

FILM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

IDEOLOGY

Ideology is identified as a body of ideas reflecting the social needs of an individual, group, class, and culture. Ideology refers to a systematic "world view" which defines our concepts of self and the relations of the self to the state or any form of the collectivism. Ideology means belief systems and the principles inside these systems, even if these "ideas" are unrecognized and thereby perhaps unquestioned. Or we may know we are being controlled, but we accept the idea that the "good" of the system overrides the "bad," or we accept the notion that the system serves our needs well enough, even though the ones we are working for make all the money. We go along with it, in effect consenting to the controls imposed on us by the State and Civilization.

CULTURE

Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

POWER

Ability to cause or prevent an action, make things happen; the discretion to act or not act.

REPRESENTATION
Representation is all about understanding the choices that are made when it comes to portraying something or someone in a mass media text. It's impossible to portray every aspect of an individual in a photograph, or even in a feature film, so certain features of their personality and appearance get highlighted, and are often enhanced, when it comes to constructing the representation that the audience will see.