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Ideology, Genre, Auteur

Ideology, Genre, Auteur. Article by: Robin Wood Presentation by: Jed Shoemaker. Outline.

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Ideology, Genre, Auteur

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  1. Ideology, Genre, Auteur Article by:Robin WoodPresentation by:Jed Shoemaker

  2. Outline Outline (30 sec)Introduction (1 min.)Terms To Help You Write Your Paper ( 3 min. )Capitalist Ideology in American Cinema ( 12 min.)Genre and Auteur (2 min.)Mix Gingerly (2 min.) Questions and/or clips ( 25 min. - actual time above)

  3. Introduction “The Truth Lies not in one dream, but in many” -Pasolini, Arabian Nights “Each Theory… has its own validity” -(Wood 208)

  4. Terms To Help You Write Your Papers Montage Theory- Editing is the key “creative act” and thus more important than any other aspect.

  5. Terms To Help You Write Your Papers Realist Theory- An attempt to balance the scales of production of film. “[Downgrades] montage and artifice.” (Wood 203)

  6. Terms To Help You Write Your Papers Semiotic Theory- Rejects/”deconstructs” realist art which leads to “open text.” ( open to interpretation)

  7. Terms To Help You Write Your Papers Filmic Text- Manner of referring to the artistic aspects of the film that is similar to discussing literature. The mise-en-scene for example, is part of a film’s overall “filmic text.”

  8. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 1) Capitalist right to ownership 2) Work Ethic Honest toil = GOOD 2) Idleness = EVIL

  9. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 3) Marriage & Family

  10. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 4) Nature - Two contradictory views : Nature as wild, untamed, rugged Nature as paradise tamed by man

  11. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 5) The City, Progress, and Technology Conflict between yielding to progress and maintaining tradition.

  12. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 5) Success Vs. Wealth * Wealth is both celebrated and chastised by Hollywood ideology depending on the means of acquisition and the particular film. (Rosebud Syndrome)-> UNHAPPY Scale of happiness based on class and wealthRich- selfish, insincere, must protect their assets -or- educated and just.Middle class- represented as majority, have no reasonable unmet needs. Poor- down to earth, happy but struggling -or- miserable and struggling. Middle class- Down to earth, but not struggling.Poor -> Rich / “New Money” Money without corruption, i.e.Molly. HAPPY

  13. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 8) America is the land of ultimate possibilities- both positive and negative.

  14. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 9) Standard Happy Endings- The ultimate impossibility: Typical Hollywood studio productions give the main character(s) implausible but suspenseful conditions for victory and yet most are successful. The hero or heroine overcomes impossible odds and ends victorious, showing that he can surmount a Kantian paradox. This “emergency exit”- (Sirk) reaffirms the ISA’s that may otherwise be questioned due to the otherwise illogical ideology.

  15. American Capitalist Ideology In Film 9 & 10) Ideal Male Ideal Female • Aberrant Male is weak and docile. Similar to ideal female. 12) Aberrant Female is too masculine or a temptress.

  16. Genre and Auteur * Genres are ideologically pure if they deal only with one side of a given ideological contradiction. * There is little ideological conflict in a simpler Genre film. * However, when Genres are less clear, less traditional, the conflict is visible. • In It’s a Wonderful Life, the Baileys and Potter stand for the two different interpretations of capitalism: Work ethic and reward Vs. Disgusting avarice

  17. Genre and Auteur • Auteur Is a method of defining a work of film by the “finger print” of the director as an artist. • It is flawed in that it denies the creative work of the rest of a film’s cast and crew because the director has ultimate veto. It does not take into account the fact that film is a collective process. • Auteur is valuable because it acknowledges that a director’s will is important in the overall form of the film, sometimes disproportionately so. • example: Hitchcock films.

  18. Mix Gingerly • Genre - Disaster Film/Romance • Auteur- James Cameron, Director of: * Terminator 2 * Terminator 2-3D * Terminator 3 * True Lies * True Lies 2 • Ideology- conflict between the happiness and the misery caused by capitalism and polarization of wealth.(obviously there are more conflicts)

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