美国灾难片中的生物技术滥用主题探讨
关键词：滥用 生物技术 美国 灾难片
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Title The Abuse of Biotechnology in American Disaster Film
——An Analysis Based on Warning Sign, Shark Attack and Locusts
Abstract
In the current time, there are more and more films which are about the disaster in America. Meanwhile, the abuse of biotechnology has become the topic for these disaster films in recent years. This thesis aims to explore the abuse of biotechnology in American disaster film, based on the analysis of Warning Sign(1985), Shark Attack(1999) and Locusts(2005). In these American disaster films, the audience can find that the living environment for mankind is deteriorating due to human biotechnology misuse. The abuse of biotechnology is mankind’s trampling on other species. Therefore, this paper has a certain realistic significance to explore the biotechnology abuse in American disaster films which advocate kind treatment of Nature, cleaner production, moderate consumption, environmental justice and democratic decision-making. As there is limited research on the abuse of biotechnology in American disaster films, this paper offers a new perspective for the study of such films.
Keywords: abuse biotechnology American disaster film
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.1
1.1 American Disaster Film.1
1.2 Literature Review2
1.3 Ecocriticism.4
2. The Abuse of Biotechnology in American Disaster Film4
2.1 The Abuse of Biotechnology in Warning Sign6
2.2 The Abuse of Biotechnology in Shark Attack.7
2.3 The Abuse of Biotechnology in Locusts.9
3. Significance of American Disaster Film.10
3.1 Advocating Kind Treatment of Nature and Environmental Protection……….10
3.2 Advocating Environmental Justice and Democratic Decision-making.11
Conclusion13
Acknowledgments14
Bibliography.15
1. Introduction
With the development of technology and society, we can find that there are more and more American films involve the topic of disaster which has aroused widespread concern. According to the present American disaster films, there is no doubt that the abuse of biotechnology has become the hot topic in recent years. This thesis aims to analyze the abuse of biotechnology in present American disaster films.
1.1 American Disaster Film
Disasters have been the subject of American film-goers’ fascination since the time of silent film epics, and this interest continues to exist up to the present time. American films have often depicted large-scale natural disasters (weather-related usually) or man-made calamities (a wreck at sea, an airplane crash), often accompanied by massive crowd scenes. Other disasters may be planetary-related, criminally-instigated, nuclear-related, millennial-related, or involving alien or mutant invasion of some kind. They can be either impending or ongoing, or they can exist locally or globally.