The American"Hero Salvation"Film Values Criticism:On the Evolution of the American Commercial Film Production System and Film Values
American film values have an internal structure.The bottom layer is European cultural values.The"Amer-ican Dream"expresses the unique values of the United States,and Hollywood films artistically present the American value system.The Frankfurt School criticized the cultural industry that emerged in Europe and the United States at the beginning of the 20th century,believing that its commercialization and industrialized production harmed culture and art,implying the function of capitalist ideological control.The American"commercial film"production model inevita-bly produced the"hero saves the world"type of film,which elevated personal heroism and heroic salvation philosophy to the level of a philosophical worldview.The extreme personal heroism in it has a"spectral"impact on American so-ciety.Chinese films should construct a value system with Chinese characteristics and create Chinese heroic films.
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