The Construction Of The Witch 's Image In The Hollywood Novels Of The New Century

The Hollywood magic&fantasy films,like the "Lord of the Rings," "Harry Potter," "The Chronicles of Narnia",began to get into the audience’s field of vision in 21th century,and these movies blow a wind of magic over the film market of the world.Among so many images of magic shape of Hollywood magic & fantasy movies, there is a particularly typical image-witch. Since the film called "The Blair Witch Project" which has shot in 1999,witch image has appeared in so many Hollywood magic&fantasy films as primary or secondary.For example, in "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," "Witch Season," "Wicked Witch" and other films, the image of the "evil witch" made the audience terrified; in the series films of "Harry Potter",witch became ordinary people with human emotions.Witch’s image also appeared in numerous magical animated films such as "ParaNorman".So many labels contacted with witch in reality as "wicked witch", "Satan’s Lover" and "old witch".The connotation of these labels have consistency and the meaning all point to "dark" and "evil" because the influence of Christian thoughts.In the Middle Ages, witch is the"intermediary" of devil,all the disasters, diseases are due to the presence of witches. Europe has broken out the Witch Hunt and so many innocent women were died.Although modern society doesn’t have witchcraft persecution, but witches are still separated from the mainstream of society,the modern witch inevitably become a mainstream cultural "otherness".But witch image in Hollywood magic &fantasy films has undergone tremendous change, witch was not just on behalf of the evil and darkness, they also can be as beautiful and holy goddess, or the same as a cute sister. Witch image in Hollywood magic&fantasy films has increased, and gradually formed its categorization.Witch in Hollywood magic&fantasy films is constructed by cultural. Because Hollywood is representative of American mainstream culture, passing the American mainstream values. So this construct is not isolated, but under the influence of mainstream culture. This article will analyze the witch image’s constructing process in social identity, the pursuit of emotional value and the way of visual narration.The last chapter describes the witch image’s typed production and the symbolic significance in the Hollywood magic&fantasy films as the influence of the context of mass culture, pointing out that the witch is a symbolic human, even they have been labeled witch’s feature,and eventually this image was constructed to show that a person’s emotions,feelings and values.The Hollywood magic&fantasy movies transferred American mainstreanm value imperceptibly by contrusting the symbolic image of witches. This article analyzes the reasons of witch image’s categorization and to explore the deep privative structure behind this categorization.At the end of the article has discussed the influence of witch image’s typed productiong to the Hollywood magic&fantasy films.