Film, Culture and Society

Abstract

People within the same culture share the same pattern in their way of life. Social-anthropologists in fact, see culture broadly as a set of "social rules" influencing the people's way of life - their beliefs, values, moral behaviour, social obligations and attitudes towards related issues, e.g. family interactions, parenting style and attitudes, sexuality, etc. There have been various attempts to examine the relationship between film and culture. Some workers see films as being a "reflection" of culture; others see them as "representations of the realities" in the culture. Genre films can be viewed as having a function almost equivalent to a "myth" of a culture.