中美二战电影中英雄形象的对比-以《铁道飞虎》和《血战钢锯岭》为例_英语论文

A Contrastive Study on Hero Images in American and Chinese WWII Movies——Based on Hacksaw Ridge and Railroad Tigers

摘要

随着中国经济的不断发展，改革开放政策的不断深入，中国与美国的合作与交流也变得越来越频繁，与此同时，关于中美电影的比较研究也日益增加。本篇论文的主要目的是分析中国电影《铁道飞虎》与美国电影《血战钢锯岭》中的英雄形象，通过比较文学中的形象学理论与平行比较的方法，分析作品中的中国形象与外国形象并探讨导致这种不同范型的英雄形象的原因。

本文主要由四个章节构成。第一章节为“绪论”，其中主要说明了研究目的与研究意义、主要研究方法与整体论文结构。第二章节为“英雄形象的不同范型”，此部分主要从中国电影《铁道飞虎》与美国电影《血战钢锯岭》入手，论述其中的英雄形象。根据中美英雄们在战场上的不同表现，本文认为中国英雄具有集体主义的、完美的、理性的英雄主义特征，而美国的英雄形象则具有个人主义的、不完美的、感性化的英雄主义特征。第三章节是“文化语境下英雄形象的建构”。在儒家思想的影响下，中国英雄具有的是集体主义英雄观；在个人主义影响下，美国英雄具有的是个人主义英雄观。第四章节为结论，对整篇文章进行了系统的总结。

本文分析了中美电影中的不同英雄形象，并且深入探讨了在中西方不同语境下的不同英雄观。通过对比，我们发现中美电影导演都通过他们所塑造的英雄形象来传达他们本人的英雄崇拜情结，但不同的是，中国英雄传承的是集体主义精神，而美国英雄形象传承的是个人主义精神。

关键词: 英雄形象；集体主义；个人主义； 二战电影

ABbstract

With the development of the Chinese economy and the depth of the reform and opening-up policy, the communication and the cooperation between China and America become closer. More contrastive studies are made on the Chinese and American movies. The purposes of this paper are to analyze the hero images in the Chinese movie Railroad Tiger and the American movie Hacksaw Ridge, and then to talk about the causes of these different types of hero images. This paper will use the Imagology and the Parallel Comparison of the Comparative Literature to analyze the national and the exotic hero images and discuss the causes of the emergence of these different hero images.

This paper is mainly divided into four chapters. The first chapter is ‘Introduction’, which mainly illustrates the research purpose and the significance, the related research trends, the main research methods and the structure of this thesis paper. The second chapter is the ‘Different Paradigms of Hero Images’, this part mainly talks about the hero images from the Chinese movie Railroad Tiger and the American movie Hacksaw Ridge. Through the different characteristics of Chinese and American heroes on the battlefield, this paper classifies the Chinese heroes as the collectivist, perfect and the rational heroes; the American heroes as the individualist, imperfect, and emotional heroes. The third chapter is ‘Hero image’s construct in cultural context’. Influenced by the Confucianism, Chinese heroes embrace the collective heroism, and influenced by the individualism, American heroes uphold the individualistic heroism. The forth chapter is the ‘Conclusion’, it concludes the whole paper. 

This paper analyzes different hero images in the Chinese and American movies, and deeply dissects the different heroism in the context of Chinese and Western cultures. By comparison, we can find that Chinese and American directors shape the hero images to express their hero worships, but Chinese heroes inherit Collectivism, but American heroes inherit Individualism. 

Key Words: Hero images; Collectivism; Individualism; WWII movies  

Contents

INTRODUCTION· 1

Chapter One   LITERATURE REVIEW ·2

Chapter Two   DIFFERENT PARADIGMS OF HERO IMAGES · 3

    2.1. Collective hero images and individualistic hero images ·4 

      2.1.1. The collective hero images in Railroad Tigers 4

      2.1.2. The individualistic hero images in Hacksaw Ridge  ·5

    2.2. Emotional hero images and rational hero images·  ·6

      2.2.1. Rational hero images in Railroad Tigers· · · 6

      2.2.2. Emotional hero images in Hacksaw Ridge· ·7

    2.3. Ideal hero images and imperfect hero images 8

      2.3.1. Ideal hero images in Railroad Tigers · 8

      2.3.2. Imperfect hero images in Hacksaw Ridge· · 9

Chapter Three   HERO IMAGE’S CONTRUCT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT ·10

    3.1. Confucian tradition and revolutionary hero images 12

    3.2. ‘Individualism’ and ‘non-noble’ hero images· 13 

    3.3. Traditional culture and hero image characterization· · · ·14 

Chapter Four    CONCLUSION· · ·15