English 2017 Midterm: Lectures after test 1

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Nigel Joseph

Document Summary

Justifiable materialism: pushed and pushed till he snaps and then he gets the violence. David macey ideology both derives and masks real social relations and thus legitimizes class domination by making it appear natural and ahistorical. A set of ways of behaving or thinking that quietly normalizes, and draws the reader, watcher and listener into agreement with these ways without him or her rendering themselves. A film like this makes it seem natural and common sense to prefer american customs and habits to russian ones. National ideology of excellence of the american society. Features of popular culture satisfy our desires with a peculiar immediacy and intensity and it seems that much of our pleasure comes from our response to the ideology that underpins the representation or practice involved. Ideology secures or identification at a deep level because it is linked to primary identification. Identification is what draws us into the film.