Emerges from the academic journal Screen (1971-1979)

Attacks auteur theory: the language of film must be removed from exclusive focus upon director’s influence

Everything in front of the camera prior to its recording/projection

A sort of purity; what is “actually there” (vs. intervention of editors or interpretation by spectators)

Includes films from directors in the so called “third world”

Appears in 1960s

Goal: to challenge spectators to reconsider the global impact of capitalism

A culturally specific way of thinking about the world informed by material conditions of that particular time/place

Napoleon gave ideology its pejorative connotation

How masses are led, through various means, to make sense of inequality as well as their own domination

A culturally specific way of thinking about the world informed by material conditions of that particular time/place

Napoleon gave ideology its pejorative connotation

How masses are led, through various means, to make sense of inequality as well as their own domination