The principal critical theme of Lost Causes is that the cultural realm of a society is imbued with ideological connotations. This is not to argue that a cultural field like Australian cinema, which is the ground from which I draw my principal examples, is an extension of the socio-political viewpoint of whatever government or class interests are in power. Rather, I distinguish such hegemonic practice from the presence of ideological causality in cinema in order to emphasize the hidden, because subliminal, nature of ideology. Thus ideology is a kinetic function of any society. It provides a framework within which citizens define their relationships to the social reality within which they live. The subject does not exist outside of ideology.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245269 |
| Creators | Slavin, John |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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