The Transition Of Journalist Image In The Oscar-winning Films

The role image of journalists created by popular culture-films, dramas, plays an important part in journalist image, deeply affecting journalists in self-building and social assessment. In the creation process of films, each character of the roles is built with typical feature and strong purpose, thus the creators reprocess real-life materials and interpret them in an artful way according to the need of plot development.The journalist image in the film is not only the creator’s subjective perspective of the journalism and journalists of certain time, but also an honest reflection of the condition and image of journalism at that time. As time and society change, the journalism has been in great transition since last century, in order to keep up with the change of its own development law. Accordingly, the role image of journalists on the screen has been changing. Therefore, in order to get a comprehensive view on journalists, it is highly necessary to explore the journalist image through different historical ages and analyze the reasons.This research takes 40 Oscar Academy Award-winning films involving journalist image as research object, and summarizes the typical features of journalist images and their respective journalism environment and conception reflected in the films through text analysis and narrative analysis of these films. With integrity and long time span, the samples can manifest the role image changes of journalists as time changes. Research shows that in early Oscar Academy Award-winning films before 1960s, the journalists’ image is marked with strong individualism, with the character built as someone who approaches the protagonist and has some relationship with him or her in order to dig for some buzz news. After 1960s, the film creators begin to show their attitudes towards politics and social environment through their lens,and the journalists on the screen start to put on the spirit of journalistic professionalism. In 1990s, as the journalist image in the Oscar-winning films presents the characteristics of diversification, the journalists’ personal life turnaround is furthered strengthened with the function of news agency being gradually weakened.