Acknowledgements I would like to express my appreciation to a number of people for their invaluable assistance in preparation and development of this thesis.
My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to lecture Dong Qiong, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and guidance. She has walked me through all the stages of this thesis. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis would not have reached its present form.43982
Second, i would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to other professors and teachers at the department of English, those who have instructed and helped me a lot in the past four years.
Last, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years.
Above all, I also own my sincere gratitude to my friends, my roommates and my fellow classmates who offer me their helps and times in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis.
And in the end, I am much appreciated these teachers who watch my thesis in busy time.
Thank you! And thank you very much for what you have done for me. Thank you to you all!
On Inpidualism in American Films
Abstract Inpidualism value is the core of American culture and the main part of American spirit. America is a typical representative country of inpidualism value. From the beginning of the founding, inpidualism consciousness was deeply marked on the history of the United States. Nowadays, as a unique national character, inpidualism can be seen everywhere in American social life, having a great influence on people’s life attitudes, thinking patterns and behaviors. As the most popular media, American films come from reality life so that they can be an intuitional means to truly reflect every aspect of American society and culture. We can learn more about inpidualism spirit promoted by American people through the analysis of the plots int the films.
The paper is pided into four parts. The first part gives a general introduction to the background the the study and its meaning. The second part gives a general introduction to inpidualism. It lists the definitions of inpidualism by literatures, traces the formation of inpidualism under specific American historical background, and makes a brief expound on the nine inpidualism value orientations in a general sense. The third part is the main part of the paper. It chooses three American people’s most treasured inpidualistic values, inpidual freedom, inpidual independence and inpidual struggle to analyze in details respectively combined with six films. The fourth part is the conclusion, summarizing inpidualism again and emphasizing that the appreciation of American films is an important method to understand American culture.
Keywords: Inpidualism, American films, values, culture
论美国电影中的个人主义
摘 要个人主义是美国文化的核心,是美国精神的重要组成部分。美国是个人主义价值观的典型代表。从建国伊始,个人主义就被烙印于美国历史之中。如今,个人主义作为一种独特的民族性格,在美国社会生活的各个方面都有所体现,影响着美国人们的生活态度,思维模式和行为方式。作为受大众喜爱的重要媒介,美国电影取材于现实生活,能够直观真实的反映美国社会文化的各个层面。我们可以通过分析美国电影中的情节内容来进一步了解美国社会最为崇尚的个人主义精神`751~文[论]文'网www.751com.cn。
文章共分为四部分,第一部分对选题的历史背景、国内外研究现状和发展趋势做一个整体性介绍。第二部分对个人主义作出总体介绍。列举了文献对个人主义的定义,追溯在美国特定历史背景下个人主义的变迁,将个人主义普遍意义上的酒店价值去向做出简要阐述。第三部分是文章的重点部分。就美国人最为看重的三点个人主义价值取向:个人自由,个人独立,个人奋斗结合美国电影情节进行细致分析。第四部分是文章的结论。在此总结了个人主义,并强调鉴赏美国电影是了解美国文化的重要手段。