A Study Of Death Imagery In American Medical Dramas

As the end of human life,death has always been the ultimate proposition of human philosophy and aesthetics.Because of the irreversibility of death itself and the inherent importance of human beings to life,human beings are curious to explore the unknown,but at the same time,they also have the attitude of rejection and resistance to death.In order to understand the value and significance of life,people have launched a series of studies on the topic of death.People study death through various ways in the fields of religion,medicine,science,philosophy,art and so on.Although time flies,the exploration of death has never stopped.In these areas,film and television with its own unique artistic aesthetic nature has become a favorable way to explore,show and interpret death.It explores the meaning of death from different angles and at different levels.This paper analyzes the death images in recent years' medical dramas in the United States from the aspects of image expression,narrative issues and functional value.The analysis of the plot of death in the combination of audio-visual language enhances the audience's cognition and understanding of death,which also stimulates the aesthetic expression of death in movies and TV plays,and constantly improves the humanistic value of movies and TV plays.Because of its authenticity and humanity,American medical drama stands out in film and television art.Death is an indispensable part of medical treatment.American medical drama combines the characteristics of American religion,humanity and social values to express the image of death.This paper is divided into six chapters.The first chapter elaborates the theoretical source,form display and aesthetic value analysis of death image.Secondly,it combs the development of American medical drama,and explains the relationship between death image and American medical drama.The second chapter explores the image expression of death image in American medical dramas,respectively from the specific image symbols symbolizing death,rendering the specific image color of death,and emphasizing the death ceremony of individual significance.The third chapter is about the narrative issues of death images in American medical dramas.Four narrative issues in American medical dramas are summarized.The narrative conflict of life and death,the death image of different human nature,liberation and redemption,conflict and reconciliation.The fourth chapter puts forward the function of death image in American medical drama.They are narrative function and emotional expression function.The fifth chapter analyzes the value of death image in American medical drama.From the value of the individual and the value of the society two aspects of specific analysis.