1、精選文檔 分類號 單位代碼 密 級 學 號 本科畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計）題 目An Analysis of Classes in American Society in the Film of Titanic泰坦尼克號電影中美國社會階級分析作 者院 (系)專業(yè)班級學 號指導教師答辯日期年 月 日 西安文理學院畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計）誠信責任書本人鄭重聲明：所呈交的畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計），是本人在導師的指導下獨立進行研究所取得的成果。畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計）中凡引用他人已經(jīng)發(fā)表或未發(fā)表的成果、數(shù)據(jù)、觀點等，均已明確注明出處。盡我所知，除文中已經(jīng)注明引用的內(nèi)容外，本論文不包含任何其他個人或集體已經(jīng)公開發(fā)表或撰寫過的研究成果。對

2、本文的研究做出重要貢獻的個人和集體，均已在文中以明確方式標明。本人畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計）與資料若有不實，愿意承擔一切相關(guān)的法律責任。 論文作者簽名: 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

3、abandoned the secular prejudices to fall in love, Jack finally gave the living opportunity to Roses 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 cabi

4、n, 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摘要窗體頂端泰

5、坦尼克號以1912年泰坦尼克號郵輪在其處女啟航時觸礁冰山而沉沒的事件為背景，描述了處于不同階層的兩個人窮畫家杰克和貴族女露絲拋棄世俗的偏見墜入愛河，最終杰克把生命的機會讓給了露絲的感人故事。本文通過研究泰坦尼克號中不同的社會階層，從船艙的等級、社會資源的分配和跨階級現(xiàn)象等方面，用社會學眼光來分析不同的社會階層生活品位的深層文化內(nèi)涵。說明美國人在等級問題上暴露出的虛榮自大并非偶然的選擇結(jié)果，而是具有深刻的社會文化根源的。關(guān)鍵詞：泰坦尼克號；愛情；階層；文化窗體底端Contents1. Introduction.12. The phenomenon of “Titanic”.13. The cla

6、ss 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.121.IntroductionAs the focu

7、s 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 hero, many peop

8、le 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 unruly young artist, and h

9、e 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 by Jack. After then Jack le

10、d 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 Rose up with a small piece of

11、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, class consciousness and the

12、 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 worth of the Titanic rapidly and formed

13、 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, impact the global box office. The income of the box o

14、ffice 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 details, beautiful actors, director of the originality, excellent photography

15、is rarely seen in movie history. With the Titanics popularity, there was a titanic phenomenon in the world. Titanic directed by James Cameron who derected theTerminator and the True Lies, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. 86 years ago, sank to the bottom of the oceans Titanic was onto the

16、 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 romantic, human and social contradictions also have more sharp performance. The film give audiences lots

17、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 Titanic also has the past and now two spacetimes. In terms of the past, Titanics sinking of this historical eve

18、nt itself, has the heartbreak and the tragic effect. On April 15, 1912, the so-called unsinkable sea fortress and dream boat British 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, bu

19、t only 705 of the people survived. In terms of “now”, in the film Titanic, director Cameron strives to combine an immortal 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 hel

20、p under the lifeboat, there is no doubt that there is a great shock in the sence of visual and audio. Rose and Jacks 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

21、of the first seven films of the titanic. In order to strengthen the sense of reality, Cameron imported a treasure hunters 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

22、 the old lady was in the real environment to recall the past that was dosent exsit, everything actualization logically. 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

23、of the narrative structure skillfully and delicately. It satisfied the audio-visual image strives to the perfect, and it is also a great pleasure for watching. The Titanics success in art is that it is a historical disaster that is different from the fiction. Hollywood movie has always focused on th

24、e character and put them in the most important position. In the film, the hero and the heroines image of them 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 a

25、dmire the modernist painting of Picasso, and discuss about Freud occasionally, but it lack of the behavior of the evidence like Anna hate Karenina(Anna Karenina). Jacks enjoy every day and his artistic talent only complement with each other to show his lovely place. But he is not smart enough, not r

26、esorceful enough in the film. Except Carl framed Jacks money to run away, the film 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 a

27、re some defects in individual details. But because the details of the Titanic is 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 effec

28、t. Except the gender comparison, comparison of the first class cabin 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, F

29、or example, the time contrast of centuries, it has the memories of the beginning of the century, and it also has a outlook for the future, greatly enhanced the films heavy sense of the history ; The huge spatial comparison and the comparison of details and scenes, gives auduience a beautiful spectac

30、ular impression; The comparison of bliss and exteremly sad, resulting the audiences 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

31、together, so it makes the tragedy become a beautiful 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

32、because of the hero and heroines love life, 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.

33、 So we must have to recognize the wisdom of 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 th

34、e bottom of society, the heroine Rose is the 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 po

35、or boy Jack lives in the third class. So the 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: t

36、he women and children of the first class and the second class go first.” Class and gender determines a persons 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 t

37、he composition of the 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

38、 was 100%. In contrast, 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 t

39、hird class cabin, but only 23 children have been saved. In the night women and children first, the rate of the third class cabin childrens 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

40、cabin 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

41、fiancee 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 c

42、an 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

43、 with 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 hav

44、e 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. Jacks friends have a saying:“Well, thats typical. First-class dogs come down here to take a shit. Let us know where we rank in the s

45、cheme of things. Like we could forget.”In reality, many people like the lower class people, sleeping in their small spreadpeacefully and then enjoy their own life. The British aristocrat Roses mother asked Jack the situation of the third class cabin in a luxurious first-class restaurant intentionall

46、y:“Tell us the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson.I hear theyre quite good on this ship.”And Jack replied humorously:“The best Ive seen, maam. Hardly any rats.” Jack is not the same, maybe he is not eager to enter the upper class, but he is eager to have his own favorite things - Rose. He is alw

47、ays ready. Finally, Jack went into his beloved womans heart with his talent of painting, and hooked Roses heart tightly. 3.3 Analysis the American Classes by Dream Ship . The Titanic is known as the dream ship, it embodies Embodies the capitalist ideals, values, beliefs and other ideological things.

48、 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, is like the Hollywood blockbuster. Focus on the technological achie

49、vements 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 led to the destruction of the Titanic. The shipwreck incident of Titanic is the th

50、e worlds first event to shake twentieth century. As the worlds most luxurious ship, Titanic is regarded as unsinkable fortress on the sea. The destruction of the Titanic is reminiscent of the fate of capitalist society, and the metaphorical relationship can be seen at a glance. As the masterpiece of

51、 the shipbuilding industry, the Titanics displacement reaches 66000 ton. The display, decoration firm structure and waterproof inside the ships are very luxurious. And watertight cabins are more and better, the ship is relatively rare at that time. At the time, At the time, there is nothing more tha

52、n 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 ended in a intricated nightmare disastrously, just leaving people a dream and a kind of memories. It should be said that t

53、he 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 mercilessly about the mans so-called conquest. And the human mind was badly hurt. It has a profound influence of capital

54、ist 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 can be said to be a symbol and its an allegory of the fate of the American culture and capitalist culture. As Cameron s

55、aid: “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: “Im the king of the world! Shes the largest moving object ever made by the hand of man in all history. And our master shipbuilder, Mr. Andr