摘要：

本文利用历史和文化分析的一些基本原理，对反映美国不同时代的黑人生活状况的电影进行分析研究，结合每部电影的历史背景和有关的历史资料，对不同影视作品中黑人的社会地位和生存状况从纵向的发展的角度进行讨论，对其变化的特点、原因以及仍然存在的问题进行分析并提出个人看法。美国黑人群体是美国社会的重要组成部分，其存在与发展状况与美国社会息息相关。从美国影视作品看黑人社会地位的变迁意在通过对不同时期表现美国黑人生活为主题的电影进行分析，有利于进一步了解并理解黑人历史，有利于认识美国黑人文化以及与之相关的美国社会文化，从而更好的认识美国黑人群体，认知美国社会状况。

关键词：美国黑人；社会地位；变迁；影视作品   

Abstract:

Under the guidance of some basic principles of historical and cultural analysis theory, this paper made a detailed analysis of several movies which reflect American-African’s living conditions in different periods. With concern of history backgrounds and relevant history documents, talking about American-African’s social status and living conditions in different periods from a vertical and developing perspective, this paper made a careful research and put forward its own opinion on features and reasons of transition and existing problems. African-American is a crucial part of American people. And there is a close connection between their development and America society. The survey about African-American’s status transition would certainly contribute to the understanding of black people’s history, culture and America culture. And it is also good to understand African-American and America society. 

Key words: African-American; social status; transition; movies works  

1. Introduction
United States is a melting pot of different ethnics, cultures and nationalities. African-American is an important part of this country and the main target of racial discrimination which socialists, historians and culture researchers lay much attention on. In recent years, there have been quite many incidents (in) which blacks and white polices have acted leading roles. Those incidents resulted in great riots and disturbances and attracted much attention from international community. It is supposed to be necessary for us to review the history of African-American from the time they were loaded on America to the contemporary century. There are a lot of historical monographs working on this subject and also listless fictions and biographies. Compared with those, movies give us a more explicit description and representation of every specific history moment. Getting benefited from this, we can get a better understanding of the local social backgrounds and the real life of black people then and there and have a general idea of the change of African-American’s social status from American movies in different times.