out the social and psychological context of film. Robin Wood in "Ideology, Genre, and Auteur" lists the following readily received conventions of classical Hollywood cinema:
1. capitalism, the settling of the land.
3. marriage and family as an idealized state
4. nature as agrarianism, an American Garden of Eden
5. nature as the wilderness, the enlightened noble savage
7. success and wealth, guilt about money
8. the Rosebud syndrome, the simple life is better
9. America as a land where everyone can be happy
11. the ideal, endlessly compassionate female
12. the settled, dependably dull husband
13. the erotic, fascinating, dangerous woman
15. sophisticated city comedy (Wood, p. 61)
No Hollywood film is strictly ideologically pure in any of these conventional archetypes. To be so would reduce films to the most aesthetically deprived simplistic ilk of Hopalong Cassidy or Andy Hardy (Wood, p. 62). To intelligently evaluate current
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