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The document lists the top 10 military/war movies according to IMDB ratings, ranging from the #10 movie Behind Enemy Lines with a rating of 6.4 to #1 movie Black Hawk Down with a rating of 7.7. The movies cover a range of modern conflicts and genres, including movies about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, bomb squads in Iraq, and a Navy SEAL mission to capture Taliban leaders.
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This document discusses how ideology is portrayed in films. It defines ideology as a set of ideas that reflect social values and influence beliefs and actions. Films can promote certain dominant ideologies around topics like family values, work ethic, consumerism, and gender roles. For example, many early Disney films portrayed women as dependent on men and finding romance as their primary goal. While more recent films like Sex in the City show how ideologies have evolved over time to depict women as more independent, they still reinforce the ideology of marriage as the ultimate achievement. The way things are portrayed in films shapes societal understanding and experiences of those topics in real life.
Examples of ideology in film
This document provides a summary of several scenes from a film that demonstrate examples of ideology. It describes shots of a military vehicle driving through Afghanistan with music playing, showing the diegetic sound coming from a CD player. It notes that a close-up of a glass of whiskey in the vehicle signals someone of higher authority is drinking, as shown by a nervous young soldier. Further shots reveal the whiskey drinker as a man with a relaxed, arrogant attitude who is surprised to find a female soldier driving. His comments imply it is unusual to have a woman in this role.
Ideology & representation in media
This document discusses different theories about how media represents and influences society:
- Functionalism says media informs, correlates information, provides continuity of culture and entertainment. Conflict theory says media representation is shaped by ideology and bias.
- Representation in media results from selection of possibilities and is ideological. Stereotypes in media content can reinforce power relations.
- Media can manipulate representation through techniques like mise-en-scene, editing, and framing. Content analysis is needed to understand media influence.
- Hegemony theory says the ruling class controls media to shape public opinion. Pluralism says media reflects diverse audiences rather than pushing ideology. Stereotypes arise from pleasing audience expectations.
Ideology
Ideologies are the underlying ideas, values, and beliefs portrayed in media. Common ideologies include traditional gender roles and expectations, such as women as homemakers relying on men for happiness. However, ideologies are not static and have changed over time as societies' values change. Modern media like Sex and the City portray more independent women, though still reinforce some traditional ideologies like the importance of marriage. Analyzing media exposes the dominant ideologies being reinforced around topics like family, work, consumerism, social issues, gender, and human relationships with the environment and each other.
Ideology & The Media
Ideology refers to the ideals that society feels pressure to conform to, which are influenced by institutions like the mass media. Althusser saw ideology as shaping people's thoughts and awareness. The media promotes certain ideals, like the nuclear family, by disproportionately representing it on TV. This continual exposure strengthens the belief that the nuclear family is the ideal, which the media then uses to market products that conform to this ideal lifestyle.
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- 1. TOP 10 MILITARY / WAR MOVIES
- 2. TENTH
- 3. BEHIND ENEMY LINES IMDB Rating – 6.4 A Navy navigator is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him.
- 4. NINTH
- 5. COURAGE UNDER FIRE IMDB Rating – 6.6 A US Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor.
- 6. EIGHTH
- 7. JARHEAD IMDB Rating – 7.1 Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
- 8. SEVENTH
- 9. TOP GUN IMDB Rating – 6.8 As students at the Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young flyer learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
- 10. SIXTH
- 11. THE MESSENGER IMDB Rating – 7.2 An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
- 12. FIFTH
- 13. IMDB Rating – 7.7 Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. LONE SURVIVOR
- 14. FOURTH
- 15. A FEW GOOD MEN Imdb rating – 7.6 neo military lawyer kaffee defends marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.
- 16. THIRD
- 17. IMDB Rating – 7.6 During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. THE HURT LOCKER
- 18. SECOND
- 19. IMDB Rating – 7.4 A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011. ZERO DARK THIRTY
- 20. FIRST
- 21. BLACK HACK DOWN IMDB Rating – 7.7 123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
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