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  • Essay / The Film Industry and Western Cultural Values ​​- 898

    It is evident that Western cultural values ​​are disseminated throughout the world through the film industry. The films are controlled by Western financing and strikingly reflect Western perspectives. Between the lines of the scenarios, moviegoers are invited to link Western culture and “whiteness” with positive, therefore legitimate, values ​​and to accept the dominant position of Whites. Cinema is a powerful medium, which is why films were created with emotional designs on the individual audience in order to control their minds. Hollywood therefore serves as a functional means to establish the concept of white supremacy. Hollywood films are therefore the primary instruments for establishing a Pentecostal supremacy mentality that automatically triggers the message that white people are far superior to any other race. Ideological hegemony theorizes how relationships of domination and exploitation are embedded in the dominant ideas of society. To the extent that dominant ideas are internalized, they induce consent to these relationships on the part of the dominated and exploited. Blood Diamond and In the Heat of the Night are two distinct films in which the filmmakers present us with two different ideological concepts. Both films depict white and non-white consciousness. Blood Diamond, they attacked their own race like in the heat of the night whites attacked non-whites. Blood Diamond showed this in a more violent way than In the Heat of the Night. The consciences of both films were power and authority. Black people in each of these films are seen as supporting characters, which is usually a way of promoting white supremacy. The film Blood Diamond discusses the complexity of conflicts related to the integration of a Western group in Sierra Leone. This concept also tries...... middle of paper ......back. The white men probably didn't expect the black cop's reaction and since he reacted, he sent people after him to threaten him to leave, but he didn't. he defended himself and stood his ground by not acting on the threat he received. This film gives us an insight into the perceived relationship that existed between different races during this time. The heartfelt fiction in this film showed white people seeing the non-white officer thinking that because he was a cop he could question a white man. Even though he wore the police uniform, he was still not seen as an equal or a man of power, he was still seen as black. As a society, we tend to view movies as simple forms of entertainment. The two films give us different perspectives on hegemonic ideology and society's understanding of the roles of whites and blacks and what both mean to us...