完整版关于近10年以来流行英剧的研究述评英语毕业设计.docx

1、完整版关于近10年以来流行英剧的研究述评英语毕业设计重庆科技学院毕业设计（论文） 题 目 A Review of Popular British TV-series in Recent 10 Years 关于近10年以来流行英剧的研究述评 学 院 外国语学院 专业班级 英语二专2009级 指导教师 李 宁 职称 副教授 评阅教师 职称 2013年 6 月 6 日Graduation Thesis of Chongqing University of Science & TechnologyA Review of Popular British TV-series in Recent 10 Ye

2、arsUndergraduate: Zhang YingSupervisor: Associate Prof. Li Ling A ThesisSubmitted to the School of Foreign Languagesin Partial Fulfillment of the RequirementFor the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English At Chongqing University of Science & Technology June 6, 2013 Acknowledgment I am heartfelt for th

3、ose who have helped me in my thesis making and generous supports during the course of my study of M.A. Degree. My deepest and sincerely thanks are due to my supervisor, Associate Prof. Li Ling, who always gives me patient instructions, constructive suggestion and guidance in telephone calling or any

4、thing else way she can be in touch with me. Without her encouragements and insightful guidance, I would not made this thesis successfully and timely. I also thank her critical yet very caring and instructive. I am paying my gratefulness to all the teacher for their devoted teaching and patient tutor

5、ing in the four years of my undergraduate student study. My thanks also go to my English partner Zhong Mei who encourages my English learning throughout the college life time. She made me competitive and stepping forward.Finally, I have to say so thankful to my family support in these year, whatever

6、 the support stem from the finance planning or the advice guiding. They back me, encourage me, and see me going to the success. ABSTRACTTV-series and culture and closely related. TV-series as a comprehensive form of art, reflects a country or region of cultural, history, and society, which promote t

7、he further understanding of culture. The British TV-series shows the Britishs unique sense of humor and livings in todays society life. Through the thesis a clear impression would be given by the author. In this paper, inducting and carding from the definition, classification, reasons and other aspe

8、cts, the author makes a comparative literature review of popular British TV-series in recent 10 years, including classic dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on, comes to a conclusion on the understanding of British culture.At the end of this thesis, the author hopes this thesis will b

9、e of some help to those who concern with the British culture or cross-culture communication. Whats more, the author also looks foreward to helping the people of Chines TV-series to promote the development of Chines TV-series. Key words: culture British TV-series popular摘要 电视剧和文化密切相关。电视剧作为一种综合的艺术表现形式

10、，反映了一个国家或地区的文化，历史，社会，可以促进人们对文化的更深层次理解。英国电视展现了剧英国人独特的幽默感以及当今社会英国人的生活百态。通过本文的研究，作者将给出一个关于英剧的清晰印象。 本文通过归纳和梳理，从定义、分类、原因和其他方面，对近10年以来的流行英国电视剧做文献综述，这些英国电视剧包括古典剧、悬疑剧、情景喜剧等。来对英国文化的理解的一个结论，旨在加深对英国文化的了解。最后，作者希望本文对关心英国文化或者对夸文化交际研究感兴趣的人能有所帮助。甚至，作者还希望本文会对中国的电视剧工作者在促进中国电视剧的发展提供帮助。关键词：文化 英国电视剧 流行TABLE OF CONTENTSC

11、HAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 22.1 INTRO OF THE POPULAR BRITISH TV-SERIES 22.2 CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE POPULAR BRITISH TV-SERIES 42.2.1 Classical Dramas 42.2.2 Suspense Dramas 52.2.3 Situation Comedies 52.3 REASONS FOR THE POPULARITY OF BRITISH TV-SERIES 62.3.1 Culture 62.3.2

12、 Production 62.3.3 Medium 7CHAPTER THREE CONCLUSION 8BIBLIOGRAPHY 9Chapter One Introduction Along with the London Olympic Games ended, peoples interest of British culture has not decreased. People pay much attention on a lot of popular British TV-series shows it. TV-series as a comprehensive form of

13、 art, reflects a country or region of cultural, history, and society, which promote the further understanding. With the sweeping of British TV-series especial in China, more and more people pay close attention to it. Many scholars and researchers have conducted researches in this field. This paper w

14、hich collates and reviews the related literature of the popular British TV-series studies in recent ten years to strengthen us understanding of learning British culture. With corpus method, this paper aims at obtaining the British culture in different periods, the Britishs unique sense of humor and

15、livings in todays society life, by means of studying popular British TV-series in recent 10 years, including classic dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on.There are three chapters in this thesis. The first chapter is the introductory part, in which the purpose of the research, the si

16、gnificance of the research, the previous studies on popular British TV-series in recent 10 years and the structure of the thesis is put forward. In chapter Two the author concludes the classifications of different kinds of British TV-series both at home and abroad and tries to make it clear to the r

17、eader as well. Concludes the classic dramas of popular British TV-series, including classic dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on. And deals with the reasons how could the British TV-series be so popular in recent 10 years. The last part of the thesis, the author draws a conclusion a

18、bout the whole thesis and discusses what we can learn form the popular British TV-series.The China Academic Journal Full-text Database CNKI、WanFang Digital Periodical、Science and technology periodical database of VIP are used to be the corpus of the paper by the author.Chapter Two Literature Review2

19、.1 Intro of the Popular British TV-seriesWhen people talk about British culture the first sensation come into mind must be the gentleman spirit, noble with thousand years history of British. And when talk about the British TV-series everyone are familiar with Mr. Bean, Sherlock Holmes in few years a

20、go. But the British TV-series becomes more and more popular in recent 10 years. There are further more hot TV-series are known by more and more people. There are Hustle, North and South, Shameless in 2004, Downton Abbey, Sherlock Holmes in 2010, Black Mirror, silk in 2011 and so on. British TV-serie

21、s is not only in the past 10 years production increases but also the plot excellent.British TV-series can be distinctive according to different criteria, including different themes or different plots. Some scholars classify the British TV-series into serious plays and situation comedies; some sort t

22、hem into classic dramas, suspense dramas, lawyers and political dramas, Science fiction and other kinds of themes; some also put them into British TV-series in general TV-series and mini series. Wang Juan (2012) gives it as follows: (1)The manor; (2) Detective; (3) Current affairs satire comedy. Wan

23、g Juan(2012) believes that there are so many British TV-series themes are about manor. Such as the very hot drama Downton Abbey, Jan Austins drama adaptation of pride and Prejudice. He also believes that the detective drama is another key word of British TV-series. Such as another popular drama Sher

24、lock, which is adapted of Conan Doyles classic novel. He thinks the British are good at irony. Current affairs satire comedy shows that fully. Niu Nai(2012) in his paper The British TV-series comes-reading the 20 strong British dramas divides the British TV-series as follows: (1) classical dramas; (

25、2)science fiction dramas; (3) lawyers and political dramas. About the classical dramas, there are Downton Abbey, Elizabeth I . About the science fiction dramas there are Doctor Who, Eleventh Hour. And about the lawyers and political dramas, there are State of Play, Silk , Bleak House and so on. Brit

26、ish TV-series has a lot of audiences. For example, Downton Abbeys situation remained to the end. And the average audience rating of the series for the first season also enter the UK TV TOP10 runner-up position. In addition, Downton Abbey in the United States is also greatly welcomed.In January 9, 20

27、11 the United States PBS began to broadcast the seriess first season, which not only won industry acclaim but also with double ordinary viewing record started first in the United States of America. Whats more, it is also very popular in China. 2.2 Classifications of the popular British TV-seriesAs a

28、 new popular TV-series , British TV-series has been a hot topic in the field of TV-series both at home and abroad. Many scholars and experts both at home and abroad have published their writings and articles to probe into the topic of British TV-series. There are all kinds of popular British TV-seri

29、es, such as classical dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on. 2.2.1 Classical Dramas First, the sweeping whole world classical drama Downton Abbey bring us back the early 20th-century lives and historical events(Huntley and Dana2012:26-31). The first and second Industrial Revolution a

30、nd the thought collision between new old were the theme of the times by Zhang Yun(2012). Sun Xiaoji(2012) said it was real description of noble spirit. And Xu Jian and Liu Chang(2012) believe the destiny was a result of everyones choices from the drama. it wons the British National Television Awards

31、 for Best Drama Award, American television Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award. And the Guinness World Records Record as the worlds most popular TV drama of 2010 year, which becomes the first award of the British drama.Shen Lin(2012) says in UK Downton Abbey has been evaluated as the best TV-series since

32、 the Pride and Prejudice in 1995. From another hand, the comments also reflects the Pride and Prejudices classic status can not shake. Whether the original novel or adaptation of the TV-series pride and Prejudices ability captured the hearts of the people has lasted for two hundred years. Although the two stories s background is separated by a century, there are some great similarities in the storiess subject between Downton Abbey and Pride and Prejudice. For example, the main actor and actress a