On Hollywood 's Creation Of God

In the year of1940, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group made the film Batman which was originated from the Action comics, thus Batman became the earliest real-play superhero on the big screen. In the year of1978, another Hollywood giant Warner Bros Pictures did Superman which was also from the Action comics. Since the release of Superman, superhero films bloomed in Hollywood. In the recent years, this trend has become stronger. Prof. Wang Yun has named it "the Hollywood God-making campaign""The Hollywood God-making campaign" has its profound social, religious and artistic background as an artistic, even cultural phenomenon. It is more than a means just for box revenue in Hollywood, rather a response to the new expectations in terms of spiritual and religious desire of the human beings. A theoretical analysis of "the Hollywood God-making campaign" will definitely be beneficial for our understanding of films, Hollywood, the interaction between Hollywood and the whole society, the interaction between Hollywood and religions, and also the significance of Hollywood in the histories of western art and fine arts.This thesis is hence entitled "The Hollywood God-making campaign" and has the logical structure of the five main subjects of "what is the Hollywood God-making campaign","how did Hollywood make the gods","why did Hollywood make the gods","why should it be Hollywood to make the gods", and "how do we evaluate the Hollywood God-making campaign". By supplying answers to the five above-mentioned topics as well as many other subtitles, the thesis aims to achieve a cultural interpretation of the topic of "the Hollywood God-making campaign".