With increasing inequality in the world, having knowledge about the apparatuses maintaining unequal social structures is important. Utopian and dystopian science fiction films are a good source for analysis of social structures, due to their inherent interest in social critique and the role of semiotics in the spreading of ideology. This essay examines how ideology is presented and represented in the science fiction films Metropolis and Snowpiercer. Within a Marxist theoretical framework, the essay analyses the presence and actions of ideological state apparatuses in the films, with a secondary focus on how the ideology on display is presented to the viewer. The analysis of the films shows that several different ideological state apparatuses, such as school and politics, are represented in the films. The apparatuses are also shown to use a variety of pedagogic actions for teaching the dominant ideology of the respective film’s ruling class to the citizens of the films, such as lecturing, singing and communicating through clothing and architecture. The analysis also shows that while two different political ideologies are represented in the films, corporatism in Metropolis and neoliberalism in Snowpiercer, both ideologies serve the same purpose of maintaining the capitalist order of the films’ societies: the division of labour. The essay argues that the findings of the analysis motivate a Marxist approach to teaching, in order to actively work against inequality and provide all students with a well-rounded education, no matter what social class they belong to.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luis Marcal Roriz Dias.pdf: 1528555 bytes, checksum: 39aa2b284cdc7dfda638e24093a3e8de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-01-29 / This work unfolds in three stages. The first addresses the relationship between the mode of production and therefore of socialization of individuals in this moment of contemporary capitalism with the concepts of Ideology, Ideological State Apparatuses (IEA), and the impacts that cause in individuals and their relationships. The second part focuses on how the media (one of IEA), particularly the means of communication, affects the social reality and the interaction of these individuals with this social environment, specifically in what concern our representative democracy. Finally, the third stage, more empirical, will be studied the media reality of Brazil, the concentration of power that occurs in a means of social communication, broadcasting service, specifically the issue of broadcast TV concessions, and the way that gives the exploitation of this public good by oligopolies. / O presente trabalho se desdobra em três etapas. A primeira aborda a relação existente entre o modo de produção e portanto de sociabilização dos indivíduos no presente momento do capitalismo contemporâneo com os conceitos de Ideologia, Aparelhos Ideológicos de Estado (AIE), e os impactos que causam nos indivíduos e em suas relações. A segunda parte se debruça sobre como a Mídia (um dos AIE), particularmente os meios de comunicação, afeta a realidade social e a interação desses indivíduos com esse meio social, especificamente na maneira que se dá a Democracia Representativa do Estado de Direito. Por fim, na terceira etapa, de caráter mais empírico, estudar-se-á a realidade midiática do Brasil, a concentração de poder que ocorre em um meio de comunicação social, o serviço de radiodifusão, especificamente a questão das concessões de TV aberta, e a forma que se dá a exploração desse bem público por oligopólios.