Ideology

The reading stated that ideology is usually defined as a body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture. There term is generally associated with politics and party platforms, but it can also mean given set of values that are implicit in any human enterprise-including filmmaking. It emphasized that there are two sides to art, to teach and to provide pleasure. ideology is another language system in film, often disguised language spoken through codes. The reading acknowledged that virtually everything is ideological and we make decisions based on them whether we are oblivious or aware of them. The ideologies include sex, work, power sharing, authority, the family, and religion. Leftists are opposed to hierarchy’s, human behavior can be hanged by proper environmental incentives, sex and government should be separate matters, the past is full of ignorance and the future is hopeful, social progress strives through cooperation, they identify with the poor, are global in their perspective, and sex is a persons personal business alone.

My first thought when reading this was the movie HUSTLERS. This year, before traveling to Virginia, we went to the movies as a team to see hustlers. Immediately we had thoughts of who would be opposed to the promiscuous side of this movie, because as we know it impacts a viewers decision to see it whether they realize it or not.

In connection to the reading, HUSTLERS would be ideal for most leftists. The movie although heavily focused on women decisions in terms of their bodies as theirs alone. This was prominent not only before watching the movie but also in regards to the movie post-watching.