... into social problems and conflicts, and to appraise the dominant ideologies and emergent oppositional forces. Consequently, 1 Film, Politics, and Ideology: Reflections on Hollywood Film in the ... failure of liberalism and rise of the New Right in the 1970s; and the triumph and hegemony of the Right in the 1980s. In our interpretation, many 1960s films transcoded the discourses of the anti-war, ... Staiger.@+{1 }In Studies in the Theories of Ideology, John Thompson examines many recent theories of ideology and finds that many of them sever the link between ideology and domination, and thereforerob...