Hollywood Image Of Mental Patients In The Turbine Version

"The films of one country reflect the spirit of the nation more directly than any other kinds of media arts".A detailed analysis of Hollywood films could give us an insight into the nation's cultural tradition, social reality and the national mentality etc. One category of Hollywood films are selected the spotlight which are based on those non-mainstream mental patient. Those films try to penetrate the inward world with the camera, uncover the loneliness and despair of American who lived in post-industrial era. It doesn't avoid the darkness and ugliness of human characteristics nut to analyze those people who are struggling and frustrating through the scene of warmth or bloodiness, with strong speculative thought and critical consciousness.Based on the analyzing of Hollywood mainstream films (the Oscars and blockbusters ),this dissertation is trying to reveal the classic movie image, the cultural connotation of mental patient image and how movie express with a new and caring way. This dissertation attempts to analyze the elements of the social culture and mental state in United States that are showed in the films by combining theoretical methods of three disciplines: communication ,sociology and literature by using a number of ways of Video Communication ,psychoanalysis, ideological criticism etc.This dissertation can be divided into three parts:The introduction analyzes the image of mental patients in western culture which focus on those literary works before 20th century. A meticulous text analysis has been carried out in Chapter 2 to summary the common features of mental patients'image. In Chapter 3, it is explained Cultural connotations of the image of mental patients in the perspective of popular culture .In Chapter 4, We can summary the humanity constitution based on the image of mental patients from Hollywood films. By investigated the expression of human nature,2 obviously Conclusion can be got: Non-perfect way and Irrational way.The chapter 5 is the concluding section of the whole thesis, the lack of the dissertation and how to contitue are in this part.