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A Study On The Image Of Psycho In Horror Movies

Posted on:2015-12-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330422972826Subject:Theater, film and television
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Terrorist culture can express people’s changes in the rapid development ofglobalization, marketization of uneasiness and anxiety, and to experience the pleasure ofhigh adventure, in order to meet the psychological terror. People enjoy watching horrormovies, also benefit with horror movie born exposed the characteristics of human nature.Horror movie characters of mental patients and normal relationship is one of the waysin which constitute the narrative drama, to express the relationship that is revealing thetheme and the mental patient image of human nature in the film shows the hiddencultural connotation are also important.The mental patient’s image in the focus of this study is a horror film, the mentalpatient increasingly appear in the thriller even this phenomenon as the main narrative isboth under the modern civilization development of human expression and the modernlife present situation of the performance of the collective anxiety.In business, the mental patient image provided by such films greatly satisfy themainstream audiences for a variety of pathological behavior of attitude, the spirit of thecontemporary commercial media has the patient’s unusual sexual behavior and thoughtreflects the movie audience’s curiosity. In art, the mental patient’s image in the horrormovies well had to belong to that era of common human, its aptly refers to the currentgeneral reality logic aesthetic tendency and attitude. So it seems, at least from oneaspect, the mental patient’s image in the horror movie research about how to reveal thecultural connotation and expression of human nature is particularly important.The key point of type research about horror movies or focused on narrative, themes,and audio-visual language, function research. And its inherent cultural studies rarely.This article attempts from the horror film is analyzed in this paper, the mental patientimage, from the development history of horror films, the mental patient imagemanifestation of terror, appears the reason, combined with sociology, psychology andFreud’s psychoanalysis and early foucault is the study of the production of therationality of repressed madness to treat such as theoretical basis, research by adoptingthe method of psychoanalysis, ideology criticism the mental patient’s image in thehorror film and its cultural connotation. Hope that through research on the mentalpatient’s image in the horror movie can express a certain social reality significance andembody out of horror movie itself brings negative emotions positive value, and try to make up for the academic contribute less than.
Keywords/Search Tags:Horror movie, The mental patient image, Performance, Reason, Meaning
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