Learning Western Cultural to make students love reading——Vampire Culture in Western Countries

In order to improve students’reading ability and to cultivate their interests to English,teachers should help their students acquire more western culture background.This article mainly talks about something about vampire culture which is really fascinating to the teenagers.The vampire legend is a kind of distinctive culture rooting in European countries.It has profound historical and cultural connotation,and its development is closely related to religion and culture.People in different times have different beliefs on vampires.This study aims at making more students understand vampire culture,arousing their interest on western culture,and at last,learning to take the right attitude towards people of lower-level in society.

Vampire’s Image and Its Influence on Western Culture

The saga and legends of vampire have existed for many years, from ancient time to the Middle Ages, even until now. So there exists an integrated image of vampire in westerners’mind, which influences their ethics and culture in some way. As a cultural phenomenon, vampire’s impact on western culture is worth thinking, analyzing and exploring, it will help people to taste and un? derstand westerners’culture and their lives better.

异国形象创造与文化认同

异国形象创造是对一个文化形象的塑造 ,它体现了个体与群体对异国的认知特点 ,具有跨文化、跨种族写作的特点。作家对异国形象的创造受多种因素的制约 ,其中创造者的文化认同 /身份在形象创造过程中起着关键作用。异国形象创造是确立创造者主体性作用和重建自我文化认同的一个过程。

农家女进城的生存转向与城市意象研究

上世纪90年代以降,在文学的农民工进城叙事中,出现了性别向度上农家女进城的生存转向叙事。在空间对峙与文化并置中,她们作为游移的文化活体,在性别化的人与城的隐喻化、模式化、空间化、边缘化的文学构想中,农家女意象荷载着丰厚的文化内涵。基于城乡发展失衡与二元户籍制度的划分,文学的城市呈现出否定意象的文化症候,其历史进步性、文化熔炉的聚合性、生存家园的建构性成为被遮蔽的灰色地带。

时代景观中的主体焦虑表达--论近年来中国电影作品中的男性形象呈现

电影作为叙事行为,可以呈现融合在时间与空间坐标中的时代性流动景观,其关键乃是在关乎文化价值的典型情境中凸显主体意义的人物塑造。以人本主义的观点看来,艺术核心是一切围绕人的想象性存在,而性别则是超越负载于人身上的繁复定义,在生物性与社会性把握的复合认知体系中,回归生命本质的观察视角。以此为立论基础,选取近年来制作发行的中国电影作品中为数众多而又特色迥异的男性人物形象,分析其中暗含的生物样态的原始功用、社会身份的理性认知、文化群落的归属定位,深度解读电影艺术与其依存的时代社会文化症候形成互动的方式,并展现凝聚于艺术作品中的主体焦虑及其想象性释放解决的机制。