Outlook on value is the main theme of culture. It is a kind of value orientation gradually formed by a country or nationality in its historical development and it reflects the culture characteristic of a country to a certain extent. So, in the course of cultural exchanges, different countries with different values certainly will lead to cultural shocks in various fields of life. In Chinese Confucianism, the society is a rank ladder, so Chinese people have formed unique cultural values: authority is superior to fact; collectivism is put above individualism; and so on-all these can find their reflection in the general concept of unification.
While the American culture derives from the ancient Greek-Roman culture. After a long period of development and national migration in Ancient Greece and Rome, blood ties became loose, therefore, social interpersonal contract relations emerged very early in Europe. After Christianity come into being, religion has a profound impact on people. Religious tenets encourage and require people to attach self-importance to them. Many people believe in such a doctrine “Every man for himself and God for us”.
With the intensification of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges, two kinds of different cultural consciousness are bound to clash, in the field of culture in particular. As the carriers of culture, films have strong appeal. “To understand a film means to understand a phase of history about a country, the life of a generation and even several generations as well as culture of that period [1].” So film appreciation is one of the important channels for people to understand the social culture of a country. This subject chooses a unique angle that is: the author will study values difference between Chinese and Western culture by proceeding from horror films in film culture in order to clear away the obstacle in cultural communication, thus making efforts to enhance understanding among different cultures.
也不给提示,也不说有多少错,怪难改的