The Cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci in the Footsteps of Karl Marx and Louis Althusser: Novecento (1900) and Prima Del Rivoluzione (Before the Revolution)

Abstract

In the history of humanity, ideology is important for individuals to make sense of life and direct their lives. In this respect, ideologies have a position that shapes and directs individuals and societies. Ideologies also have an impact on the formation of existing social classes. In the diversification and formation of the concept of class, society meets or diverges around a number of ideological views. Within the scope of the study, in the light of Karl Marx and Louis Althusser's ideological and social class views among the many ideas developed in the field of ideology and social class; Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's Prima Della Rivoluzione (Before the Revolution) and Novecento (1900) films were analyzed by descriptive analysis method in order to examine the counterpart of both concepts, which cannot be handled separately from each other, in cinema. As a result of the study, the influence of the concepts of ideology and social class developed by Marx and Althusser was determined in both films selected from the director's filmography.