Hollywood "father-son Sentiment Films" From The Perspective Of Gender

In today's society,gender as a topic has been widely concerned by people.After experiencing psychoanalysis,Foucault's knowledge/power theory,ideological criticism and post-structuralism,it has become more diversified,but the discussion and cognition of it are far from enough.In our society,gender stereotypes are everywhere.As a reproduction tool,film will undoubtedly pay attention to and discuss gender issues.As a mass media,it can well reflect the values of a country and a nation.What American mainstream films present is actually the future American scene that Americans want to see,and generally presents a kind of political conservatism.The Hollywood "father-son relationship" films after 1980s are no exception,such as Kramer Vs Kramer,Ordinary People and The Pursuit of Happiness,Forrest Gump and so on.Watching the movie,we found that there is a strange phenomenon in Hollywood"father-son relationship" movies:where is the mother?Why is it that in the two-hour film,only the affection between the father and the child?The emergence of this type of film is by no means accidental,so under what conditions did it come into being?How to use film language to present its ideology?And what strategies are used to influence and identify with the audience?These questions need to be answered,and also need to be considered in the process of watching the film.This paper will analyze the "father-son relationship" films in Hollywood from the perspective of gender.This paper is mainly divided into four parts:The first part mainly introduces the definition of Hollywood "father-son relationship" films,the origin and research status of this paper,and the article of the paper.The second part introduces the background of Hollywood "father-son relationship"films,mainly from the second wave of feminism recession and renaissance of conservatism,instability of society and the anxiety of the industrial revolution,the family crisis and the American dream to redefine and Hollywood movie multiple transformation period from four aspects to explain the emergence of Hollywood"father-son relationship" films is the political,economic,cultural and social product,is the product of multivariate decision.The third part mainly studies how to reproduce the father loves by the film screen,from the almighty father image creation,the loss of my mother and my parents two opposite structure of concrete to explore gender discourse in film and the family order,the mother's left is a chance,son finally realize and father's identity,enter the symbolic order,father and son together form a traditionally strong family structure,and the female exile.The fourth part mainly discusses the production and consumption of the film,mainly from the ideology of the film and the shaping of audiences.Only in the consumption and watching of the audience,the film can realize its significance.As a commodity,the "father-son relationship" film reproduces the real family situation.There are two mirror images in the film:the audience and the screen,and the son and the father respectively identify with each other.As an ideology,gender can be reproduced in the film,which results in the reproduction of audience's gender.The conclusion mainly summarizes the paper in the light of the current social situation of absent fathers.