Horror films fuse filmmaker dreams with audience nightmares via shared ideology
Evidence
The premises and preconditions which sustain their rationalities have been rendered invisible by the process of ideological masking and taking-for-granted we earlier described. They seem to be, even to those who employ and manipulate them for the purposes of encoding, simply the “sum of what we already know.” That they contain premises, that these premises embody the dominant definitions of the situation, and represent or refract the existing structures of power, wealth, and domination, hence that they structure every event they signify, and accent them in a manner which reproduces the given ideological structures—this process has become unconscious, even for the encoders. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 921 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Horror and science fiction films spike during eras of political conflict; Ideological premises in media encoding operate unconsciously even for the encoders — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 921; Dehumanizing film narratives grant viewers a perceived right to kill the Other.
Related
- Horror and science fiction films spike during eras of political conflict (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Ideological premises in media encoding operate unconsciously even for the encoders
#expands(0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 921 - Dehumanizing film narratives grant viewers a perceived right to kill the Other.
#exemplifies(0.60) - Horror and science fiction films spike during eras of political conflict
#corroborates(0.55)