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Wu Thoughts Of God

Posted on:2014-01-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330398458731Subject:Film
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Hollywood movies have always been a model for all the countries in the world tostudy and emulate in their film production. While some say Hollywood movies arethose at the "children’s level”, Hollywood has proved to any country in the world theneed of its existence and indispensability with its magnificent momentum andamazing box office. In the field of studies on films today, the research work onHollywood has a great “potential of an immense number of books”. But Hollywoodfilm production has developed so rapidly that it has made the research work on it fallbehind it with some “flaws”. This paper deals with the “Hollywood sci-fi war movie"as an example.This paper attempts to analyze the “Hollywood sci-fi war movie” from twoperspectives of “science fiction and “war”, and points out that there must be logicalties among science fiction, war and the audience. This paper also analyzes thedevelopment of Hollywood sci-fi war movie as well as its characteristics from thepoint of view of the types of movies, and discuss the difference between theHollywood sci-fi war movie and other types of movies. In addition, this paper makesa careful study and presentation on the movie aesthetic value and the state ideology,weighing the necessity of a separate study on the “Hollywood sci-fi war movie”.The first chapter explains that the Hollywood sci-fi film originally exists as an“unconscious practice”. The science fiction has its fascination for directors andaudiences as soon as films came into being. In the meantime, war element makes itsentrance into sci-fi films without being noticed. War film is a subject that directorsand audiences are never willing to give up. It became varied with the development offilm and diversified needs of audiences. When war films developed at a certain stage,sci-fic war film, as a new genre of war films, emerged. Since then, science fiction,war and audiences had been interwoven, which provides impetus and inexhaustiblesupply of subjects for the Hollywood sci-fi war films.The second chapter elaborates on Hollywood sci-fi war film by putting it into thedevelopment of film genres and introduces/puts forwardthree periods of thedevelopment of Hollywood sci-fi war film. This chapter elucidates threecharacteristics of Hollywood sci-fi war film as a film genre and expounds thedifferences between Hollywood sci-fi war films and other film genres in connotationand in denotation. The differences are also shown through the analysis of specific film cases. This chapter then points out that Hollywood sci-fi war films exhibits Americanstyle more fully in comparison with other film genres.Chapter III described theaesthetic value of the Hollywood sci-fi war movie start from the audience the illusionto create and psychological identity. Fantasy and heart of the audience eager for war,and the Hollywood sci-fi war movie audience by attracting why this type of movie tosatisfy the audience needs. Explains the theme-"Valkyrie fantasy.The fourth chapter is to start from the state ideology. Hollywood film has beenaired the U.S. state ideology rare tools, the Hollywood sci-fi war movie in the basis ofinherited predecessors’ willingness to create the new imperial system, from a higheraltitude, by another new U.S. national ideology preached, to establish the image of theUnited States in the world "tall. Compared with other types of films, the effect of theU.S. state ideology preached naturally better and more easy to accept."Transformers","Avatar","The Battle of Los Angeles," Avengers "film series hasdemonstrated a powerful force and influence of this new type of movie. The reasonwhy many researchers failed to turn its independent classified research into the ranksof the "sci-fi war movie" because the classification of the sci-fi movie will includeinside, but with the development of the science fiction movie, the sci-fi warcharacteristics will become increasingly evident, if you do not incorporate them into anew research areas, many of the film’s bright spot will be obscured. Today’s type offilm integration trends are becoming evident, the combination of "science fiction" and"war" theory expounded more in line with the needs of the development trend of filmgenre. Visible for a separate study of the science fiction war movie is very necessary.
Keywords/Search Tags:Science fiction war film, Type study, Valkyries lord, Aesthetic valuestudy, National ideology study
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