摘要：

作为文化产品的影视作品，总是居于某一文化结构的表层，体现某一文化的不同方面或被某一文化的不同子系统所影响。影视作品与它所属文化的制度、民俗和观念等深层结构相互呼应，密不可分。作为某一社会观念文化核心的价值观念，它在潜移默化之中对影视的制作与传播起着决定、支配的作用。也就是说，影视总是体现和充溢着产生它的母体文化的价值观念。本文试图通过分析美国影视作品，总结其中所体现的美国人的价值观。美国影视作品体现的美国人的价值观主要有：个人英雄主义，自由主义，追求正义与平等，对美国梦的追求，崇尚理性与奋斗、重视个人与实用、强调竞争与创新。本文主要探究了美国影视作品中体现的个人英雄主义，自由主义，美国梦和正义，希望对我们理解美国人的价值观有很好的指导。

关键词：影视作品；美国人价值观；个人英雄主义；自由主义；美国梦

Abstract:

As cultural products, films and TV works are always in the surface of certain cultural structure, reflecting different aspects of a particular culture or affected by a certain culture of different subsystems. Films and TV works and their cultural system which they belong to, folklore, and concepts are inseparable. As a core concept of social culture, values play a decisive part in films and TV works. That is to say, the films and TV works always reflect and are filled with its parent culture values. American films and TV works are an important part of the American culture, and they are saturated with the mainstream of American values. Through the analysis of the American films and TV works, the paper aims to locate the American values. American values reflected in American films and TV works are: the individual heroism, liberalism, the pursuit of justice and equality, the pursuit of the American dream, advocating rational and struggle, attaching great importance to the personal and practical competition and innovation. This paper mainly explores the individual heroism, liberalism, American dream and justice in American films and TV works, hoping to have a better understanding of American values.

Key words: films and TV works, American values, individual heroism, liberalism, American dream