On The Prototype Structure And Cultural Implication Of The Ghost Story

In recent years, more than U.S. drama turned out ghost theme from The Vampire Diaries to The Gates, from Being Human to The Secret Circle and so on, in rage, but also lead people to their attention. From the beginning of the birth, such as represented in the vampire ghost theme has maintained a strong vitality, its unique architecture prototype is worth studying.On the other hand, the current study focused on the perspective of the U.S. drama aesthetic and cultural studies, cultural studies which are mostly from the U.S. drama popular culture perspective. In this paper, multi-field cross and research methods, combining philosophy, psychology, cultural anthropology, art and other related disciplines, from the perspective of cultural studies prototype of the U.S. drama. Archetypal criticism is more common in literary studies, the use of prototype theory on American TV ghost theme cultural studies is still rare. Therefore, this paper tries to use archetypal criticism, from an unconventional perspective on American TV ghost theme study to analyze the deep cultural meanings on the performance of such work provides a new perspective for the study of American TV.There are3sections in this paper, the first departure from the themes, characters, story mode in three areas, the analysis prototype architecture theme Bourne U.S. drama, which includes life and death, good and evil, life motif; vampires, werewolves, the human protagonist, witch roles, such as type; ghost of love, power struggles story mode. Then focus on the analysis of its cultural implication, that the unique mythological and religious character. Then discusses its contemporary cultural enlightenment, that is the ideal of harmonious social inclusion call, common feelings of pure pursuit of immortality.Overall, this paper ghost theme of American TV as the research object, using prototype theory, cultural studies aimed Perspective, by the method of textual analysis and literature studies, cultural studies seeks to provide a reference for the U.S. drama, the paper argues that the ghost theme American TV has its unique prototype architecture, its mythological and religious character of the human collective unconscious exhibit original common sense and life dreams, while its cultural connotations contemporary projection ancient culture, is a prevailing myth in the modern world, with spiritual reflection on contemporary society and healing effect.