Ideology and object on the basis of World War II films of the Thin Ted Line and Saving Private Ryan

The Industrial Revolution and the developing war technologies, on the one had, have massified the war, on the one hand, have made it more destructive. The new generation wars that caused the deaths of millions of people were moved to "breakfast tables" and then to "living rooms" with the help of communication tools and the information about the war became an ordinary element of daily life. As an art of mass, cinema, which was born at the end of the 19th century, started to show interest in the war in a short time and many movies about the war have been shot since the First World War years. Examining these films dealing with World War II can provide important clues to understand how the war is represented in these films. Accordingly, in this study, Thin Red Hat and Saving Private Ryan, which are among the most successful examples of Hollywood movies about World War II, and released in the same year, will be analysed. The two films were determined by purposeful sampling method due to differences in their approach to war. In the first part of the thesis, the purpose and importance of the thesis, the relationship between cinema and ideology, and literature research are explained. In the second part, as a mass media, the power of the cinema to influence the masses and the representation of war in Hollywood cinema in the process of historical development are examined. In the Third Chapter, where findings are found, the ideological approaches of the films, The Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan and how the "subject" is positioned in these ideological approaches, which are the main topics of this study, are examined and analysed. As a result of this analysis, it is understood that In Saving Er Ryan, a movie with a classic Hollywood narrative structure, themes such as heroism, sacrifice, courage and homeland are brought to the fore and sanctified. It is tried to reach the present through the past by emphasizing that “subject” can be valuable provided that it accepts and proves its commitment to these sanctified themes. The Thin Red Line film emphasizes the meaninglessness and destructiveness of the war from a different perspective rather than the classic war films and and war-related values are open to discussion by showing how war also destroys humanity, human values and nature at the same time.