The Mechanism Of Hollywood Dream

Judging from Althusser's theory of "ideological state machinery",the media is also a kind of ideological state machine,which can help the compulsory state machinery to maintain social order.As a popular mass media,film is very popular in the field of ideological communication,and Hollywood film is the leader of ideological communication.Since the second World War,Hollywood films have made great progress in terms of creative style,editing techniques and ideological communication,and thus occupied a relatively monopolistic position in the world film market.For movie fans around the world,Hollywood films,even if they are synonymous with American movies,have a tremendous impact on themselves.There is no doubt that Hollywood's global strategic communication has been successful.The purpose of this paper is not to demonize some popular films,but to analyze the typical Hollywood classic films from the perspective of cultural research.In order to find out how ideology is presented and operated in Hollywood films,and then to reveal the complexity of these popular mass media products,especially to emphasize their connection to politics,as well as the often conservative ideological discourse.In the first chapter,the author expounds the history of Hollywood film and the industrial mechanism,especially the research of Hollywood production system and star system.The second chapter is the study of the most characteristic American western films.Combining with the western regional characteristics and cowboy images,this paper expounds the most representative elements of American national spirit,such as frontier spirit,racism,individual heroism,etc.The third chapter through the most representative classic song and dance film specific case analysis,from the song and dance film development process as the main line,Hollywood song and dance film from birth to decline to rise each process of combing,And select the City of Philharmonic as a typical case to analyze the ideological and political elements of the spread of Hollywood fuzzy film brilliant means.Chapter 4th focuses on Disney,providing another way of thinking about Hollywood from the "childlike" perspective.The conclusion part is a summary and sublimation of the whole thesis,hoping to provide a new way of thinking for the domestic film market and to open up the international market by studying the global ideology communication strategy of Hollywood film.