| Warfare, as a kind of collective atrocity, brings the catastrophe and fear to human beings, which is usually considered as the thing of ugliness and terror. However, it is this kind of warfare to be appreciated aesthetically in maximum limitation in the film. The basic cause is that it can give the audience strong visual and hearing excitement and satisfy some their psychological needs with no harm to anybody. In America, due to the special position of World War II in American war history, film and television circles shoot warfare movies with enthusiasm. Film makers use the exceptional shooting mode from Hollywood and all skills and ways which can attract the audience's eyes to promote the profit gained from selling tickets. People are warmhearted to watch American warfare films owing mainly to our aesthetical experience stimulated by watching them, changing the bloody and cruel scene into aesthetical subject and getting aesthetical delight from watching course. Getting aesthetical delight is the major purpose the audience goes to cinema, which is utilized by American films about World War II to shoot those marvelous movies.This paper includes four chapters. In chapter one, it is to analyze the nature of warfare film, American warfare film and the cause warfare is put into aesthetic. It is the American warfare film being as aesthetical subject and art to make its ideology and pattern get coat of aesthetic. In chapter, it is to introduce the particular ingredient in American ideology and then to analyze aesthetical ideology about its cultural way of life and conception hided in the ideology of American films about World War II. In chapter three, it is to discuss two utter forms of American film about World War II: tableau and sound. The two forms is toward the audience directly and more to arouse their sensory aesthetical experience. In chapter four, it is to expound three aspects—lofty, tragedy, absurdity which are aesthetical types of American films about World War II. |
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