Louis Pierre Althusser is a famous French Marxist philosopher and an orthodox advocate against the threat of bourgeois ideology. His writings are quite abundant and extremely critical. Among them, the most influential and controversial is the ideological view elucidated on the basis of structuralist thinking. The elaboration of this article is based on this theory, with the help of “movie” This capitalist society’s ideological media machine introduces Freud’s psychoanalysis and Lacan’s “mirror phase” theory to explore the mechanism by which white male-centric patriarchal movie creation conceals and unconsciously suppresses female images. The call to the potential male audience subject creates a type of imaginative (female) visual representation that fits the male center. The theoretical characteristics of this article are more reflected in the development of Jung's “collective unconsciousness” in the third part, facing the new connotation of capitalist social gender ideology in the new period.

Chen xiaoxiao. Althusser's Structural Thinking and Gender Awareness Criticism in Films. Frontiers in Art Research (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 8: 17-22. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2020.020803.

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