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American Liberation Mythologies: Democracy and Domination in U.S. Visual Culture.

机译：美国解放神话：美国视觉文化中的民主与统治。

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A myth of liberation saturates the cultural landscape of the United States, structuring the collective consciousness, guiding political action, and disguising the nation's patterns of domination. This study grew out of a concern over the United States' engagement in two wars with the stated aims of liberation and the spread of democracy. Anthropological theories of myth assert a reciprocal relationship between political action and creative expression; through myths we reflect upon culture, in culture we enact myths. Popular media is a prominent realm for the creation and performance of contemporary myths. By analyzing performances of popular culture as expressions of the myth of liberation (Bruce Willis' "Tears of the Sun," "American Idol," and Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino"), this dissertation delineates the parameters of the national myth that declares an identity of the U.S. as liberator to the world's oppressed, sanctifies the democratic ideal, and valorizes consumer capital. Analyses also reveal a U.S. identity of dominator in the global community, the betrayal of the democratic ideal through the commoditization of the democratic gesture, and the implementation of segregation and terrorization to support the exploitation of consumerism. Myths are paradoxical, and this study asserts that U.S. culture exhibits a societal tension between liberty and domination. In the form of popular culture, myths attempt to mediate this social paradox. Drawing from the methodologies and theories of cultural anthropology, folklore, sociology, media studies, performance studies, U.S. history and international relations this dissertation offers insights into four issues of vital importance: the role of the U.S. in globalization, the recent national crisis in democracy, the violence of consumerism, and the dialectical relationship between popular culture and political action. This research is grounded in the anthropological understanding that cultural products are both models of, and models for, cultural action. Following such an understanding, it concludes by asserting, through reference to the variations of the myth explored, that the producers and consumers of culture have the ability to reconstruct the myth of liberation and move U.S. culture out of its socio-historic patterns of violence and domination and toward a mythic construction of creative intervention and cross-cultural dialogue.
机译：解放神话浸透了美国的文化景观，树立了集体意识，指导了政治行动，并且掩盖了美国的统治方式。这项研究源于对美国参与两次战争的关注，这场战争的目的是解放和民主扩散。神话的人类学理论断言政治行为与创造性表达之间存在相互关系。通过神话我们反思文化，在文化中我们制定神话。大众媒体是当代神话创作和表演的重要领域。通过分析流行文化作为解放神话的表现（布鲁斯·威利斯（Bruce Willis）的《太阳的眼泪》，《美国偶像》和克林特·伊斯特伍德（Clint Eastwood）的《格兰·都灵》（Gran Torino）），本文描述了宣告民族神话的民族神话的参数。美国作为被压迫者的解放者的身份，使民主理想成圣，并使消费资本增值。分析还揭示了美国在全球社会中的统治者身份，通过民主姿态的商品化背叛了民主理想，以及实施了隔离和恐怖主义以支持对消费主义的剥削。神话是自相矛盾的，这项研究断言美国文化在自由与统治之间表现出一种社会张力。神话以大众文化的形式试图调解这种社会悖论。本文从文化人类学，民俗学，社会学，媒体研究，表演研究，美国历史和国际关系的方法论和理论出发，对四个至关重要的问题提供了见解：美国在全球化中的作用，近期的民主国家危机，消费主义的暴力行为以及大众文化与政治行为之间的辩证关系。这项研究基于人类学的理解，即文化产品既是文化行为的模型，又是文化行为的模型。得出这样的理解后，本文最后总结道，通过探讨所探索的神话，文化的生产者和消费者有能力重建解放的神话，并使美国文化摆脱其暴力和暴力的社会历史格局。支配地位，走向创造性的干预和跨文化对话的神话般的建构。

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    Williams, Kathleen Michelle.;

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    University of California, Los Angeles.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Los Angeles.;
  • 学科 American studies.;Mass communication.;Film studies.;Performing arts.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2012
  • 页码 217 p.
  • 总页数 217
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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