AsudyofWesernculuralinenionsreflecedinfilmZooopia_开题报告

The film as a new popular culture and communication, which inevitably have ideological imprint.(陈新,2014) The Cultural explanation for the Hollywood film will help us gain a deeper understanding of American actions in real life,increase the further understanding of the American lifestyle,improve our insight and sense of the international affairs.Inthe long run,reaserching the American culture in the Hollywood films will help us to look at the spirit of American culture,from its essence,to its dregs,which in the context of globalization,rehabilitation and development of the national culture.(张江彩,2012)Based on previous research works and my personal interests，I began to follow the previous researchers to study the Hollywood film as the representative of the United States film,and American dream、immigrant culture, religious and ethnic culture and the political intention of the present age that are reflected in the film culture.

American dream is a common theme in American movies, and it is an important part of American culture and values, emphasizing that in the United States as long as through its own efforts and tireless struggle to get a better life and realize their ideals, i.e., people must be through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to succeed, rather than relying on a particular social class and other assistance to succeed.(鲍玉晰,2001) American film as an important manifestation of American culture, through the pursuit of the dream of the common people's description, describes the cultural connotation and essence of the American dream. Individualism, freedom and equality, self reliance and personal struggle and success is an indispensable cultural connotation of the American dream.(艾琦,2010) In American dream,the social groups are super ideal, they are from reality, but also beyond the reality in, it is also cass as utopia. "Utopia" originated from the works of the same name by the British scholar More St.Thomas in sixteenth Century. In that book, More made up a perfect social system of the island, not only abolished the private ownership, but also to achieve equality of all. Under the protection of the ideal system, the residents of the island to fully enjoy the freedom. Poverty and evil in the real society are not in this small island. While the British people are full of hope for the political celebrity More, he was a friend of Henry VIII. [1](St.ThomasMore,2001).

Utopia dream as a counter attack on the capital system,it seems to tell us it just a dream.

From Dream to reality，national cultural factors existing in the reality of the United States immigration barriers, apartheid, political differences and so on is American movies in a lingering shadow, is the pursuit of the story of the American dream to conquer the obstacles.(朱默,2012). Immigration images in American film is produced under the joint action of the social and political situation in the United States, the American movie industrialization, mainstream culture idea of the superiority of the white race, "melting pot" theory and the changing of the immigration policy, with innate concept and essence of the plane and the factor.(崔军,2004) Immigration culture in American movies has been effectively incorporated into the mainstream values of the social order of the United States and the expansion of the American film industry，this has become a part of the new mainstream narrative.(刘智,2005) In contemporary American movies, on the one hand, the immigrant image shows the human natu,， on the one hand it fell into the narrative framework of political ideology，on the one hand, the image of immigrants with the contemporary American society development and even the whole world development, become more and more closely,but on the other hand, the nation is more and more far away from its own specific historical and cultural attributes.(杨慎生，1996)

In American movies, the embodiment of the cultural characteristics of race and ethnicity，I am afraid that only a considerable study of the history of the development of the United States of America, in order to understand the intentions of. Racial discrimination and racial problems are deeply rooted in the United States, this has been a major problem in the American society. In 1956, civil rights leader Martin Luther King led the United States launched a massive black civil rights movement, however, due to the strong obstruction and interference in all areas. After the movement, the problems of the segregation of the black residential areas and the economic poverty have not been resolved. From the beginning of 1950s, the speed of the migration of the black population is accelerating. The two World War led to the mass migration of the black population and the increase of the black population, Subsequently, the United States began to emerge in the area of the black population. Followed by the problem of black living, education, employment, and so on, leading to the escalation of violence among urban and ethnic groups.(刘溯德,1997)

The "political correctness" of the United States does not come from the submission of the system, but the final result of free choice.(贺晓宏，2010) Media and Hollywood in the United states, the liberal ideas of the left seem to be more easily supported and loved by people. But the opening of the film market at any time to give the opportunity to free competition in different voices. Radical liberal ideas have long been regarded as the mainstream of the Hollywood and the political correctness of the benchmark. From the political right liberal thought of Hollywood to the traditional conservative thought, we can see in American political divide and balance. Although, Hollywood's films are not designed to express political views. But some of the creators or left or right political ideas will inevitably be competitive like the Democratic Republican Party. (侯庚洋,2006)

Hollywood science fiction movies are often rich in content, visual shock and sought after by the audience, but it is often implicit or explicit in its ideological connotation. And unconsciously through a large number of image wonders to complete the narrative, from the film to the audience to achieve the main body of the replacement. It uses its unique cultural and political logic in the audience's response to the realization of the possible subtle ideological.(张诗情,2015) Hollywood films record different historical stages in the United States. It is a microcosm of the history of the United States, but also the epitome of the development of American culture. And the "American Dream" is the core theme of American movies. Facing the globalization trend of American film, only the wheat from the chaff of the Chinese film, in the tradition and modernity, localization and globalization for balance, people with different cultural backgrounds, different values resonate(张江彩,2012).

Contents

Chapter One Introduction

Research Background

Research Object

Chapter Two A study of American Culture Reflected in Hollywood Film

2.1 American Dream 

2.2 Immigrant culture  

3.3 Ethnical culture   

4.4 Political intentions 

Chapter Three A study of cultural intentions reflected in Zootopia 

3.1 American Dream 

3.2 Immigrant culture  

3.3 Ethnical culture   

3.4 Political intentions 

Chapter Four Conclusion 

References

[1]St.Thomas More. Utopia. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2001

[2]艾琦，杨昕.从美国电影看美国梦的文化内涵[J].宿州学院学报，2010.

[3]鲍玉晰.美国学者对好莱坞的批判[J]. 电影艺术2001.

[4]崔军.美国电影中的移民影像[J]. 文艺研究,2004

[5]陈新. 好莱坞科幻电影意识形态研究[M]. 厦门：厦门大学,2014.

[6]侯庚洋.电影中的国家文化传播[M]. 中国报道，2006.

[7]贺晓宏.论美国电影的跨文化传播[J].河南社会科学，2010

[8]刘德溯.民俗化：对民族历史与现实的电影阐述[J]. 电影艺术,1997.

[9]刘智.美国文化的移民特征[J]. 重庆交通学院学报，2005.

[10]玛丽安娜.美国文化背景[M]. 北京：世界图书出版公司,1999. 

[11]徐建纲.美国电影中的文化透视[J]. 电影评价2013.

[12]杨慎生.英美电影文学[M]. 北京：北京大学出版社,1996 

[13] 张江彩.好莱坞电影在中国的跨文化传播[M]. 陕西师范大学，2012

[14]朱默. 梦想照进现实——试述美国电影中的“美国梦”[J].电影评介.2012.

[15]张诗情.美国电影在对外文化传播中的作用——以迪士尼公司为例[M].  北京外国语大学,2015.