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The Ideological Function of Casablanca Everyone has heard of the movie, but how many people have actually seen it and understand that there is a deeper meaning to the movie “Casablanca.” The deeper meaning of this movie is the use of the ideological dimensions in the film. The definition of ideology is often thought of as a negative term alluding to false consciousness, which means unaware of the real conditions of ones life (Propaganda and Ideology Essay). In conjunction with dimensions the term stands for the size or magnitude of this false consciousness. The movie took place in the French Moraco in Africa in a town named Casablanca. While looking a little deeper into the name Casablanca one will see that the word casa means house in Spanish. One will also see that the word blanca means white in Spanish. So a false consciousness of the name of the town Casablanca actually means white house. In the movie there are several different ways that one can trace back to the American culture. One of which is the patriotism of the singing of the French National Anthem or the playing of American swing music at Rick’s saloon. Another is the forming of two types of hero’s by the characters of Rick, the outlaw hero, and L