READING THE IDEOLOGY OF CINEMA: CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY AND THE IRON LADY

We are witnessing revival of conservative ideology that underlines nationalism, adapting to the crises of modernism, free market, traditions and locality in our postmodern age that represents rupture from mo-dernity and with the spread of Neoliberal economic policies all over the World. This ideology being very close to the thinking of Social Darwinism and quite problematic with the understanding of the social state, is also reflected on the cinema and is intellectually reproduced. The Iron Lady movie (“The Iron Lady”, 2011) is one of the films in which this ideology is reproduced. As a means of creating meaning, these films are media contents of the type of ideology elements. It is very important to analyze the films from an ideological perspective, realizing how the dominant ideology is reflected in the cinema, consciously or unconsciously to reveal implicit or explicit meanings that have been produced in terms of critical political economy approach. In this article, the ideological character of the movie The Iron Lady is intended to be revealed. For this purpose, the critical method of ideological analysis is used in this study.