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American Dream Representation In Hollywood Sports Movies

Posted on:2017-03-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y K SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330488479271Subject:Humanities and sociology
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Sports and movies are closely related, By special audio-visual methods, sports movies show characteristic of different sports and various spots spirit like exciting and fighting, bravery and power. As a kind of movie with full of vitally, Sports movies focus on sports while use the image of sports games to convey positive feelings including fighting, selflessness, beyond, and forward. which be liked by people.AS an important part of Hollywood movies, sports movies express "American dreams"This paper used Literature Review Method, Content Analysis Method, case study method analyzes the way Hollywood movies express "American dreams"the writer of this paper chose the encode table to do quantitative analysis on Hollywood sports movies, there are five parts in encode table: basic information of movies, basic information of sports, proposition of sports spirits, culture characteristic of "American dreams", national elements of USA. In the part of basic information of movies, it has Name, Release date, Production Co, Genres, Director, Writer, Runtime, Rewards, Gross, Budget,Cast, Name of role, Gender of role, Age of role, Profession of role.etc.in the part of basic information of sports including Name of sports, Level of sports games, Level of sports games’ scenes, Level of sport skill, Level of verbal violence, Level of body violence. When it comes to proposition of sports spirits, writer used six different propositions to represent sports spirits which include proposition of fair competition, proposition of team work, proposition of work hard, proposition of beyond ability, proposition of success, proposition of overcome adversity." through reading related works, writer found that American dreams has various meaning and characteristic including: freedom, fair, dream, achieved, upward, wealthy, heroism, innovative and adventure. About national elements of USA,it can be shown in national flag, national song and national map.Hollywood sports movies have these factors: big scene, high quality games, however sometimes there are verbal and body violence in sports movies, but not too serious.At first, almost half of sports in Hollywood movies is ball sports, then is weigh sports like boxing, fighting, etc, racing and horse racing together behind top 2 gymnastics water sports and winter sports ranked from 4th to 6th.Next, the most characteristic sports movies show is achieved that means role accomplished his or her goal by working hard. besides, it is clear that the major role in sports movies has a dream. Then writer found the major role in movies finally got upward in social level due to his or her own efforts. As we know, the United States is an immigration country which human rights and fair play important roles in its history, but in Hollywood sports movies, these two characteristics rarely be found. This paper pointed out that heroism and wealthy are last two characteristics shown in sports movies.Finally, this paper concluded by using cross-tabulation on proposition of "American dreams" with other factors and doing Chi-square test. Conclusions below are drawn from this paper:(1). proposition of freedom is related deeply with races of role, Level of sport skill, Level of violence, Level of body violence. proposition of fair competition. proposition of beyond ability, proposition of success, proposition of overcome adversity. chief of state and national map;(2). the differences between proposition of fair with races of role, Level of sport skill, Level of verbal violence, Level of sports games’ scenes, proposition of fair competition. proposition of beyond ability, proposition of success, national song, chief of state and national map is significance. the proposition of heroism has diversity with proposition of overcome adversity;(3). proposition of dream is linked with proposition of fair competition, proposition of overcome adversity, proposition of work hard, chief of state and national map;(4). proposition of achieved is connected with gender of role, level of sports games, Level of sport skill, Level of sports games’ scenes, proposition of work hard, proposition of overcome adversity and national flag;(5).proposition of upward is related with races of role, level of sports games, Level of sport skill, Level of sports games’ scenes, proposition of team work, proposition of overcome adversity, proposition of beyond ability, proposition of success;(6).proposition of wealthy is linked with Level of sport skill, proposition of beyond ability, proposition of overcome adversity, proposition of success;(7). proposition of heroism is associated with level of sports games, Level of sport skill, Level of sports games’ scenes, Level of body violence, proposition of overcome adversity;(8). proposition of innovate and adventure is significant linked with level of sports games, Level of sport skill, Level of sports games’ scenes, proposition of beyond ability.First, in the process of realization of the "China dream",we should pay attention to the importance of sports movies,we can’t ignore sports moviesplays an important role on the cultural industry, sports industry and other industry developing. Implemented by people oriented concept which asks for the government to observe public conditions and to understand public opinions.When using sports movie this means, we must balance political and entertaining.Second, human resource is of great value in national development. Sports movie of our country should increase the intensity of reform, to encourage more love sports industry talents to join the sports film artistic creation.Third, the key to propagandizing and popularizing China Dream is to improve the cultural power by implementing socialist core values, raising the national image and improving national quality.Forth, the China dream is not the dream shared by the minority. It calls for every people’s participation and joint work to realize the cohesion of power. The China Dream can only be approved by more people at home and abroad when individuals have the chance to achieve his own dream.Fifth, striving is a significant feature in the American Dream without which can no dream be realized. The spirit of striving and struggling is necessary for constructing a well-off society and realizing the China DreamSixth, all people should be guaranteed to share the equal opportunity in education, employment and promotion and to equally enjoy social welfare and chance offered by government.Seventh, the development of urbanization should be promoted step by step, asked by the requirement of the fluent communication of classes, the perfect flow mechanism and the effective flow rate. A healthy and perfect benefit readjustment mechanism should be set to prevent the lower class to pocket the fruit of economic development, thus creating a equally sharing organization..
Keywords/Search Tags:Hollywood sports movies, American dreams, content analysis
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