从恐怖电影看美国文化

题    目   Analysis of American Culture from Horror Movies       

            从恐怖电影看美国文化                    

Abstract

The relationship between movies and culture involves a complicated dynamic; while American movies certainly influence the mass culture that consumes them, they are also an integral part of that culture, a product of it. The United States is the third largest country in the word with a population of more than 325 million. In addition to Native Americans who were already living on the continent, the population of the United States was built on immigration from other countries. Because of this, the United States is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Nearly every region of the world has influenced American culture. Horror movies show us what we fear. That’s why the best horror movies are almost always pulling double duty, serving up scares that also illuminate the anxieties that lie below the surface of our collective cultural norms. Most horror films were in production before the new year began, yet they’re a telling glimpse into a long-brewing pot of cultural anxieties that seemed to boil over in the past year. And among the most successful horror films of the year, one took the standard tropes of its genre and upended them in order to get at some unexpected and timely truths about American society. And American people are crazy about horror movies. From this point of view, this paper analysis the American culture from the horror movies.

Keywords: American culture, horror movies, analysis

Contents

Abstract I

Contents I

Introduction 1

1. Introduction of American Movies 3

1.1 American movies’ culture 3

1.2 Horror movies 3

2.American Horror movies 4

2.1 Development of American horror movies 4

2.2 Reasons for American people like horror movies 4

3. Classical American horror movies 6

3.1 Dracula (1931) 6

3.2 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 7

3.3 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 7

4. The impact of horror movies on American holiday cultures 9

5 .Conclusion 11

References 12