英美文化鉴赏课程论文

英美文化鉴赏课程论文 山东农业大学 课 程 论 文 科 目 英美文化及影视欣赏 论文题目 Vampire Complex in American Culture 学 院 资源与环境学院 专业班级 08级土地资源管理专业2班 学生姓名 黄晓娜 学 号 20086456 任课教师 任艳 2010年6月28日 Vampire Complex in American Culture Abstract Since last year, the vampire culture sweeping across the world, set off a burst of enthusiasm in the world, especially in the United States. This is reflected in the books, movies, entertainment, etc. in. In this paper, the source of the vampire, vampire's image, and through Reading "Twilight" vampire plot so that we know it’s existence in the meaning of American culture. Keywords: Vampire Culture Symbol Significance Preface Over the course of the appreciation of America and English’ culture and film, I have developed an interest in the vampire complex in American culture. The topic is of particular interest to me because I believe that American culture often makes the creative talents of the individual at an early age. Creativity is an integral part of human identity. In this semester, some films were specifically designed with my particular interest in mind, and I also found ways to explore my fascination with the subject. Recently vampire becomes one of the most popular fiction around the world with the film “twilight “played on the screen. They are mysterious fearful creatures: young, beautiful, powerful and immortal. Over thousands of years, vampire occupied a very important position in American culture. Vampire’ origin We all know that blood is the symbol of life, and it features a large part in American culture. The God punished Eve for her tempting Adam by letting her suffering monthly period, in Homer’s Odyssey Chapter 11 Ulysses sacrificed blood of 1 freshly rams to his soldiers, or Harpy as a bird with the head of a woman, would suck the babies’ blood. All of the stories show that blood was a symbol of evil and mystery at the very beginning, which made preparations for the arising of vampire. There are several versions of its origin. But I believe this version to some extent. The one is the most convincing and scientific-based. In the medieval Europe, a large Bubonic Plague swept the whole America. At that time fears spread, people would bury the patients without ensuring whether they were really dead or not. The buried people struggled in the agonies in the coffins and tried hard to climb out. When people re-open the coffin after a few days, they saw the body with blood, and it seemed the body had moved. Few people escaped the tomb yet died soon. The living ones are afraid, they couldn’t explain why the corpse would change or wandering around the tomb outside. Then the vampire superstition became popular and the term vampire was popularized from the early 18th century. In the 18th century of America, a lot of scholars and priests researched into the vampirism and a lot of argues and controversy arouse in many fields. With years of development, there are some common characteristics about vampires. They need blood to survive, they have strong energy and superpower. They only come out at night because they fear sunlight. They look pale. They are immortal except few ways of terminating them. The image of vampires Speaking of vampires, when some people respond better nausea, good horror, or how far. In fact, the vampire is actually a full modern image, or a full vampire is the internal structure of modern discourse, to be exact is the internal composition of the redundant material, because the word vampire in fact until the early 18th century Among the major languages of Europe, a new word, is exactly the early 18th century Enlightenment period of the most high. Unlike werewolves vampires, witches, wizards, elves, it is a full ghost. It is a Gothic culture hastened. Starting from the Enlightenment, the vampire began to become a continuous sequence of rebirth, an ever summoned the specter of being banished to the specter of Western popular 2 culture is, then the image into the film after the film became the history of the whole Europe and the United States important part. In fact, the reality of which is easy to understand, in fact, since from the 90's, the vampire has become a culture in the United States, or the post-Cold War era of American popular culture itself, the most important fundamental indicators, and further into a global coverage of the logo, as indicators of the global process of modernization. After the Cold War because the American public is actually a mapping of cultural globalization, identity is an important indicator of globalization. Popular culture in the United States among the most important cross-century cultural context and cultural undercurrent is again on the vampire narrative, this undercurrent to 2008,09 finally became prominent in the landscape in which the entire global phenomenon. "Twilight" of Appreciation American vampire has always been a symbol of an alternative culture, gender may be an alternative, it may represent a Bohemian-style personality, very charming, very particular about the costumes, many lovers, etc., such as the poet worship London is such a classic. Some vampire story is actually a prototype of Byron to do. But the United States this somewhat unusual vampire thermal changes. "Twilight" is told of a rich vampire family to settle in a small town, their son is simply a perfect young, handsome, rich, and the woman very well. Actress but is not look like the girl, nothing outstanding between. The performance of boys started very cold for the actress is actually suppress their own desires, and finally talk to wear, and the two began to fall in love. "Twilight" vampires prototype for the changes, mainly in the film, the vampires are to understand self-discipline will never be innocent. The vampire movie claiming to be "vegetarian", meaning that they eat animal blood, eat human blood. Boys great start for the exclusion of girls, but also because her taste is very attractive to him, almost killing him cross-border. He succeeded, after overcoming his own desires, but also very self-discipline to not have sex with her, in order to avoid the heat of the moment to hurt her. And he is very specific for the feeling never did like Byron around mercy. The vampire is not far from the 3 embodiment of dark forces, civil society is simply a moral model. A result, many girls like him incredibly. The heroine of the film is a man without character, according to the authors say it is precisely by design. Because of her extraordinary, any girl can "drill down her body," anyone can share her fascination with the handsome vampire, so love the movie and become loyal fans of this series. In other words, the present composition of vampire culture and the risk are removed, is very safe to stay very pure fascination. Vampire, the realistic meaning Modern culture seems to be a vampire vampire metaphor is just perfect as it vampire, he includes all human desires, at least for now known that they powerful, flexible, and adequate time to equip themselves to make up for defects. So they became the subject of many stories of reference. Such as "true blood" it, in my opinion although the identity of the vampire story borrowed, but the more it seems that the United States, racial diversity and contradictions, and thus reduced to individuals. While the vampire theme and identity of this very unreal, but very realistic themes and stories. From which we can go for more information or to experience the reality of identity. One of the most simple description is: horror film is a real catharsis and escape reality. Proceeding from the interpretation of the vampire pop culture is that it is American culture on the 911 and a response to the financial tsunami. Vampire The typical Western mainstream culture or mainstream modern Western construction of redundant material, in fact reproduce the modern value, we can see the modern world and that salvation can not redeem. Which in Western culture, they adopted a typical image of the vampire, re-writing mainstream values. Therefore, the Vampire is not just the most sexy man, and they are a model, redemption, atonement's mainstream values. Short, just like "Twilight," Kerry inside the family, this case is very clear, but the fact is not that simple, because the great, complex and the paradox of popular culture, which is interwoven a variety of hegemonic rivalry words battlefield. Conclusion 4 Vampire culture is a part of the culture of terror. Among these, the U.S. culture of terror may not be the most characteristic, but there is no doubt the most commercially successful and most mature. From novel to film and television, to the derivatives, the American commercial exploitation of the terrorist theme, already formed a mature production line, and succeeded in occupying the global market - the same as Coca-Cola. Many factors have prompted the development of vampire culture, such as death, darkness, war, natural disasters, anxiety and reflection; of the unknown and the mystery of curiosity; in a safe environment to experience the excitement of terrorist risk, etc., are attracting people to find another outlet for. 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