从电影看英美文化_开题报告

Literature review

1. Research background

Although globalization has wiped out the original world and changed the original structure of the world, it is the culture of all countries that affect people or affect people for a long time. Culture can reflect the politics and economy of a country as a contemporary college student, especially the students of foreign languages. It is necessary to understand the culture of other countries. Learning the culture of other countries can not only improve our quality, but also fully understand the world stage. Film appreciation can help us learn more, more valuable, more practical American and American culture and customs in a short time.

2. Foreign research status

Compared with other forms of transmission, movies are the most intuitive and engaging, the easiest to cross cultural and border barriers. The film is a cultural product, which refers to the "culture" not the narrow art creation, but the "big culture". In 1982, the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization through the declaration of Mexico City cultural policy made definition of culture: "from the broad sense, culture can now be seen as by the spirit of a society or social groups, material, rational and emotional aspects of marked characteristics of integrated as a whole. It not only includes art and literature, but also life style, basic human rights, value system, communication and belief." Different countries, different ethnic groups in their own life practice to form the different way of thinking and way of life, to treat things with the established views and attitudes, all of which constitute the identification sign of a nation is different from others. As a source of literary and artistic creation, culture inevitably manifests itself in the content and form of films. Only through these marks can we recognize the cultural attribution of the film. The film is a kind of visual symbol based, direct transmission form. Can the audience through the film to understand the different life style, belief systems, social values, moral standards, such as surface and deep culture, yi leite, rogoff in the context of studies of visual culture, the film as a cultural significance construction arena, the rights of meaning construction completely to the audience. American linguist, Sally Ma Jiao in his article Bias - Free Language: Some Guidelines, Culture shapes Language and then Language shapes Culture. "so the learners can film Language reading foreign way of life, belief systems, social values, moral standards, such as surface and deep Culture

3. Domestic research status

Mr. Shu xiang Lu said, "learning a foreign language without understanding its culture is tantamount to memorizing a list of symbols that have no real meaning, which can be difficult to use effectively and wrongly." Language and culture are interdependent, and no language can exist independently from the culture it carries. Movie as a kind of popular culture, is to display life enrichment of carrier and sublimation, is the bridge of cultural communication, is a national and ethnic social way, customs and habits, the humanities, history, and the most direct way of thinking and the most active comprehensive reflection. "every film is a certain cultural regional history and a reflection of social and cultural life". (ZhuangQiChun, 2005) English films is an important medium of cultural knowledge to learn, to historical events, small to customs, in the movie has a vivid reflection, comprehensive specific, vivid passed the foreign culture.

Ii. Thesis outline

1. From the movie mamma mia!, the concept of money, love and marriage view in western culture

1.1 attitudes towards money

1.1.2 after the civil war in the United States, with the development of economy, the americans formed the worship of money.

1.1.3 money is a means to manifest a desire and a sense of mission

1.2 love view

1.2.1 love is the supreme, and the passion for love. It should be related to the importance that the west has advocated since ancient times

1.2.2 be honest of feelings, together because of love and separate if love is gone

1.3 marriage view. Respect and trust.

The mainstream values of western culture from Forrest Gump

2.1 pursue freedom and equality

2.2 advocate personal struggle

2.3 uphold the individualism

2.4 unique religious values

2.5 the hero complex that can not be given up

Summary

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