FILM 1400 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 3 (34-61, 438-444): Family Values, Semiotics
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Films combine formal and stylistic elements that create an ideological stance. Can be analyzed as a film with ideological themes because it reinforces aspects of a dominant social ideology (seeks to uphold what is characteristically conceived as. Examples of ideology; family unity is threatened by the big move to new york, lon attends school far from home, tootie destroys the family of snowmen to represent family destruction. Stylistic devices build up a picture of happy family life. Technicolor helps the mes-en- scene stand out with lush colours. Similar costumes strengthen the association of the family unity.
