《泰坦尼克号》电影中美国社会阶级分析

1、 分类号 单位代码 密 级 学 号 本科毕业论文（设计）题 目An Analysis of Classes in American Society in the Film of Titanic泰坦尼克号电影中美国社会阶级分析作 者院 (系)专业班级学 号指导教师答辩日期年 月 日 西安文理学院毕业论文（设计）诚信责任书本人郑重声明：所呈交的毕业论文（设计），是本人在导师的指导下独立进行研究所取得的成果。毕业论文（设计）中凡引用他人已经发表或未发表的成果、数据、观点等，均已明确注明出处。尽我所知，除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本论文不包含任何其他个人或集体已经公开发表或撰写过的研究成果。对本文的研

2、究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均已在文中以明确方式标明。本人毕业论文（设计）与资料若有不实，愿意承担一切相关的法律责任。 论文作者签名: 年 月 日AbstractIn the background of The “Titanic” in 1912, the Titanic in its virgin sail impacted the iceberg and then finally sank. It describes the two people in different classes - poor painter Jack and aristocratic girl Rose aban

3、doned the secular prejudices to fall in love, Jack finally gave the living opportunity to Rose's touching love story. This paper studies the different social classes in the “Titanic”, analysis the different social classes life quality and the deeply cultural connotation from the level of the cab

4、in, the allocation of social resources and the cross-class phenomenon, with sociological perspective. Indicating that the Americans vanity on the level issues is not the results of accidental choice but with a profoundly social and cultural roots.Key words: The“Titanic”; love; classes; culture摘要窗体顶端

5、泰坦尼克号以1912年泰坦尼克号邮轮在其处女启航时触礁冰山而沉没的事件为背景，描述了处于不同阶层的两个人穷画家杰克和贵族女露丝抛弃世俗的偏见坠入爱河，最终杰克把生命的机会让给了露丝的感人故事。本文通过研究泰坦尼克号中不同的社会阶层，从船舱的等级、社会资源的分配和跨阶级现象等方面，用社会学眼光来分析不同的社会阶层生活品位的深层文化内涵。说明美国人在等级问题上暴露出的虚荣自大并非偶然的选择结果，而是具有深刻的社会文化根源的。关键词：泰坦尼克号；爱情；阶层；文化窗体底端Contents1. Introduction.12. The phenomenon of “Titanic”.13. The cl

6、ass analysis of “Titanic”.3 3.1 Analysis of cabin rank.3 3.2 Unbalanced allocation of social resources.4 3.3 Analysis the American Classes by Dream Ship.5 3.4 Hierarchy and class prejudice.6 3.5 The symbol of the American spirit.74. Conclusion.8References.11Acknowledgement.12II1.IntroductionAs the f

7、ocus mainstream ideology of American film, "Titanic" is used in the narrator flashback format, with the great imagination reconstructed the life story of the Titanic recalled a tragic love story under the background of the 1912. The story takes place on a luxury cruise ship, including the

8、hero, many people joined the "Titanic" maiden voyage, shows a period beautiful love story of life and death, love and hate in front of the world. Among them, the heroine Rose was a daughter of the rich, accompanied by his mother and her fiance Carl on the ship. The hero Jack is a dissolute

9、 unruly young artist, and he won a lower class tickets by gambling at the same time. In the course of the voyage of the ship, Rose was reluctant to marry Carl and was extremely disgusted with the hypocrisy of the upper class, so she had the idea of suicide. When she was going to jump, she was saved

10、by Jack. After then Jack led Rose to the lower class party and Jack also painted for Rose. With the contact of the two people, they fell in love gradually. At this time, the Titanic collided with the iceberg. The sudden disaster tested the love between them. After panic and struggle, Jack lifted Ros

11、e up with a small piece of wood. But he was in the icy waters, and frozen to death. In the film, the love of the hero and the heroine was influenced and restraint of the class. It is difficult to break the cage of morality and freedom. This story contains the conflict between the rich and the poor,

12、class consciousness and the danger of falling. The theme of the disaster has secilarized and commercalized to the characterization of the human nature and the class nature. 2.The Phenomenon of the Titanic For "Titanic", the hype from the news and the media like wave by wave. Increases the

13、worth of the Titanic rapidly and formed an unprecedented boom. There are lots of novels, papers, literatures, photos, picture albums, interviews and so on at the same theme. Global "Titanic" phenomenon pushing a culture of consumer wave in front of us. Disaster and love, life and death, im

14、pact the global box office. The income of the box office of "Titanic" now beated the "Jurassic park", breaking through the $1.2 billion, has a great success in the sense of the business. It should be admitted that the production of the Titanics grand scene, plot tension, rich det

15、ails, beautiful actors, director of the originality, excellent photography is rarely seen in movie history. With the Titanic's popularity, there was a titanic phenomenon in the world. "Titanic" directed by James Cameron who derected theTerminator and the True Lies, starring Leonardo Di

16、Caprio and Kate Winslet. 86 years ago, sank to the bottom of the oceans Titanic was onto the screen for many times, losses of love and the helplessness of disaster has been the focus. In the "Titanic", the director James Cameron still followed the past ideas, but he gave the film to more r

17、omantic, human and social contradictions also have more sharp performance. The film give audiences lots of inspiration and introspection and also won the tears at the same time. Space-time conversion is a means of expression that many art films specialize in using. There is no doubt that the 'Ti

18、tanic' also has "the past" and "now" two spacetimes. In terms of "the past", Titanics sinking of this historical event itself, has the heartbreak and the tragic effect. On April 15, 1912, the so-called "unsinkable sea fortress" and "dream boat" B

19、ritish luxury giant boat Titanics first shipping hit the iceberg in the north Atlantic voyage. Only two hours, it became an “ice wreck”. There are 2228 people on the ship, but only 705 of the people survived. In terms of “now”, in the film 'Titanic', director Cameron strives to combine an im

20、mortal classical love legend with this painful historical disaster. The scene that thousands of people fell into the water, a grand scene of tragic shipwreck, hundreds of hands for help under the lifeboat, there is no doubt that there is a great shock in the sence of visual and audio. Rose and Jacks

21、 love story begins on the boat and ended in the ice water, and let the movie get rid of the pattern of record the event simply. It also makes it possible to acquire the artistic charm of the first seven films of the titanic. In order to strengthen the sense of reality, Cameron imported a treasure hu

22、nters real action at the beginning of the film. When the wrecker take out the fictional portraits of Rose by seawater corrosion of the safe box, everything is no longer false. And when the old lady was in the real environment to recall the past that was dosent exsit, everything actualization logical

23、ly. The directors pursuit of the details and accuracy, increased its historical authenticity and credibility. The film use the “heart of the ocean” be a mysterious haunt and as a clue of the narrative structure skillfully and delicately. It satisfied the audio-visual image strives to the perfect, an

24、d it is also a great pleasure for watching. The Titanic's success in art is that it is a historical disaster that is different from the fiction. Hollywood movie has always focused on the character and put them in the most important position. In the film, the hero and the heroine's image of t

25、hem is very touching. In terms of character image shaping, 'Titanic is not a very successful one. For example, the three characters Rose Jack and Carls characters are littel vague. Although she admire the modernist painting of Picasso, and discuss about Freud occasionally, but it lack of the beh

26、avior of the evidence like Anna hate Karenina(Anna Karenina). Jack's "enjoy every day" and his artistic talent only complement with each other to show his lovely place. But he is not smart enough, not resorceful enough in the film. Except Carl framed Jack's money to run away, the f

27、ilm also lack of the description of his emptiness spiritual , vicious humanity and so on. Although the whole plot of the film is fictional, the director also has deficiencies because of the individual horizon, and there are some defects in individual details. But because the details of the Titanic i

28、s extremely real, and fully used the contrast approach, so the film was highly praised by the audience. "Titanic" also combine with a variety of contrast, all kinds of contrast at a heat, received a very good artistic effect. Except the gender comparison, comparison of the first class cabi

29、n and the third class cabin , comparison of poverty and wealth, comparison of different classes and the comparison of the emotions in the film, there is also a comparison of the space and time, details and scenes, etc. For example, For example, the time contrast of centuries, it has the memories of

30、the beginning of the century, and it also has a outlook for the future, greatly enhanced the film's heavy sense of the history ; The huge spatial comparison and the comparison of details and scenes, gives auduience a beautiful spectacular impression; The comparison of bliss and exteremly sad, re

31、sulting the audience's psychological contrast and emotional agitation.Thus, the two themes of love and the perils of the sea, 'Titanic' is not just technical demonstration, and not simply reveal the emotional ups and downs. It combines them together, so it makes the tragedy become a beau

32、tiful story, and obtained a commercial and artistic double success. The combination of the shipwreck and the plot of love makes the whole film evolve under a suspense tense and a rapidly changing rhythm. The whole process of wrecking was thrilling. But because of the hero and heroine's love life

33、, passing a traditional but everlasting and lovely sentiment. People always like to reveal the old when they are feeling the history. Moreover this dream is so moving. The film is three hours and ten minutes long, but people do not feel tired after watching. So we must have to recognize the wisdom o

34、f the producers and creators. 3.The class analysis of Titanic. We see the Titanic is not only a beautiful love movie, more we can see that the American social stratification from this film.3.1 Analysis of cabin rank. The hero Jack is from a poor family in the bottom of society, the heroine Rose is t

35、he lady from the nobility. The two young people born with a natural contradiction, but they fell in love. Rose has a fiance, her fiance Carle is the son of the steel king. Rose and her fiance Karl live in this luxury cruise ship in the first class and the poor boy Jack lives in the third class. So t

36、he story begins in such a class conflict. The emergence and development of the contradiction between the opposing classes will direct this wonderful story. "Let the women and children go first". The social norms on the Titanic maybe more accurate to express: "the women and children of

37、 the first class and the second class go first.” Class and gender determines a person's life and death in the Titanic sinking. In the process of filming, Cameron pays special attention to excavate the deep reasons of social and cultural aspects behind the disaster.He studied the composition of t

38、he survivors of the wreck of the Titanic carefully, and came up with a surprising result. A crew of the Titanic, has 10% chance of surviving in the disaster. And a first-class cabin man, the chance of survival has reached 50%, the survival chances of the women in first-class cabin was 100%. In contr

39、ast, the survival chances of the women in a third-class cabin was only 25%. From this, we can see that the class differences and the gender differences have become an important factor of a person in the survival. The casualties statistics said that , there are 76 children in the third class cabin, b

40、ut only 23 children have been saved. In the night "women and children first", the rate of the third class cabin children's loss is higher than the first class cabin men. When the water is rising rapidly, some exports of iron door has been locked, banned the people in the third class ca

41、bin to go out. According to the only escaped third class cabin waiter memorizes that the third class people are limited to the deck until a quarter past 1o clock. This is a kind of satire on the class of human rights. “Mr. Dawson is joining us from the third class. He was of some assistance to my fi

42、ancee last night.”The actor stressed that jack is from the third class intentional. Money can bring you into a kind of social class but this kind of social mobility is not promoting the development of the society. Only the hope, freedom and equality of the social environment is advisable, and it can

43、 promote the development of the society. It is diffiult for lower classes to flow upward. But how about the higher classes flow downward? It is more difficult.3.2 Unbalanced allocation of social resources. The Titanic is ready to set sail, in the boarding time, the people of the upper class filled w

44、ith a variety of luggage, And then transported to the luxury suites of first class. In the contrast, Jake carry a small bag on board. Before entering the society, what they have is not the same. After boarding, the scene is switched between the first class cabin and the third class cabin. They have

45、a serious imbalance of social resources. Even in the social public domaindeck, The resources they have are not the same. The third class passengers can only look up. Jack's friends have a saying:“Well, that's typical. First-class dogs come down here to take a shit. Let us know where we rank

46、in the scheme of things. Like we could forget.”In reality, many people like the lower class people, sleeping in their "small spread"peacefully and then enjoy their own life. The British aristocrat Rose's mother asked Jack the situation of the third class cabin in a luxurious first-clas

47、s restaurant intentionally:“Tell us the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson.I hear they're quite good on this ship.”And Jack replied humorously:“The best I've seen, ma'am. Hardly any rats.” Jack is not the same, maybe he is not eager to enter the upper class, but he is eager to have h

48、is own favorite things - Rose. He is always ready. Finally, Jack went into his beloved womans heart with his talent of painting, and hooked Rose's heart tightly. 3.3 Analysis the American Classes by Dream Ship . The Titanic is known as the "dream ship", it embodies Embodies the capital

49、ist ideals, values, beliefs and other ideological things. The whole capitalist society is a larger Titanic. As the “industry miracle in the history of the world”, the course of Titanic from Southampton, UK to New York. Suggests the values of Americans. But the construction of the "Titanic"

50、, is like the Hollywood blockbuster. Focus on the technological achievements of modern industrial revolution. reflected the development of the bourgeoisie society conceited or arrogant under the support of money and technology. Ironically, The development of this "smug" of capitalism has l

51、ed to the destruction of the Titanic. The shipwreck incident of Titanic is the the world's first event to shake twentieth century. As the world's most luxurious ship, Titanic is regarded as unsinkable fortress on the sea. The destruction of the Titanic is reminiscent of the fate of capitalis

52、t society, and the metaphorical relationship can be seen at a glance. As the masterpiece of the shipbuilding industry, the Titanic's displacement reaches 66000 ton. The display, decoration firm structure and waterproof inside the ships are very luxurious. And watertight cabins are more and bette

53、r, the ship is relatively rare at that time. At the time, At the time, there is nothing more than "Titanic" such a man-made largest and most luxurious passenger ship launching voyage can show the mastery of the human nature. But the "Great Boat" suddenly sank into the sea, and en

54、ded in a intricated nightmare disastrously, just leaving people a dream and a kind of memories. It should be said that the progress of technological has made the first 20 years of twentieth century development rapidly and the bourgeoisie is also complacent. But with the Titanics sinking, it laughed

55、mercilessly about the mans so-called conquest. And the human mind was badly hurt. It has a profound influence of capitalist society. The tragedy of the Titanic is just like the bustling capitalist society. The fate of sudden subversion has awaken some of western capitalist countries. The luxury ship

56、 can be said to be a symbol and its an allegory of the fate of the American culture and capitalist culture. As Cameron said: “Now the Titanic is a cautionary tale, its a mirror that makes people scan themselves all the time, and its also a legendary that enduring the faith, courage and sacrifice. ” When the captain praised of the Titanic, he said: “I'm the king of the world! She's the largest moving object ever made by the hand of man in all history. And our master shipbuilder, Mr. Andrews, here, designe