摘 要：1991年美国影片《沉默的羔羊》上映。作为一部精神分析的电影,该 影片始终贯穿了女性意识与女性主义,并成为经典之作，同时也引起了很多学者的关注。在定义了女性主义并分析了其文化起源之后，论文主要采用了案例分析法探讨了《沉默的羔羊》中Clarice及与其相关的人物形象，并分析说明了各人物形象中所蕴含的女性主义。本研究能够使人们从另一个角度认识这部电影，使人重新思考现代女性在社会中的定位，并能够为其他文艺工作者创作女性主义作品提供参考。

关键词：女性主义； 自我救赎; 性别易位

Abstract：In 1991, the American film The Silence of the Lambs released. As a film of psychoanalysis, it is a classic which embodies female consciousness and feminism throughout the whole course, and attracted the attention of many scholars. Adopting case analysis method, this paper mainly discusses the characters of Clarice and some related images in The Silence of the Lambs, surely, those images embody some feminist consciousness more or less. The research could offer a new perspective to understand this film, inspire people to rethink the positioning of women in modern society, and provide a reference for other literary and art workers to create feminist works.

Key words: Feminist; Self-salvation; Gender translocation

Contents

摘要 i

Abstract ii

I. Introduction 1

II. Theoretical Perspectives and Cultural Origins of Feminism 2

2.1 The Definition of Feminism 2

2.2 The Cultural Origin of Feminist Theory 3

2.3 The Lack of Female Consciousness in Movies and Television Works 3

III. The Embodiment of the Feminism in The Silence of the Lambs 5

3.1 Image-building of Clarice in the Movie 6

3.2 Clarice’s Awareness and Self-redemption 7

3.3 Feminist or Gender Translocation of Other Characters 10

IV. Influence of Feminism Awareness 12

V. Conclusion 13

Bibliography 15

Acknowledgements 16

Feminist Consciousness in Film The Silence of The Lambs

I. Introduction

As early as 1791, Olympe de Gouges, the women leader of the French revolution issued The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, feminist movement has been started since then. At the beginning of this book, the author wrote: “Woman is born free men, and men have equal rights.” But two years later the author was sent to the guillotine by his former male colleagues. Until the 19th century, the first wave of the woman’s liberation movement began to rise, the focus of the debate is to require gender include all of the life course equality between men and women, also is the equality of the sexes. But the Feminist literary theory produced in the late 20th century, with the expansion of this doctrine, in literature, film, theater art, has come out and more works promoting women’s rights. In 1971, several female consciousness documentaries appeared, such as Growing up Female, Three Lives and The Woman’s Film, marks the birth of the first generation of feminism documentary. The American film industry began to appear a lot of feminist films from 1970 to 1980, many excellent actress also left many popular works in in this period. Such as Vanessa and Jane Fonda starred in Julia (describing the anti-Nazi heroine’s life story), Sally Field’s Deep Heart (the description of the story of strong women in rural areas) and Jessica Lange’s Francis (describing the confrontation of Hollywood character actress tragic story). The main reasons for the formation of this fad is the feminist thinking and women’s liberation movement in the United States since the 1970s, on the other hand thanks to this group of outstanding actress, they unwilling to serve as a vase in the movies, they are willing to challenge a complex and deep female characters, of course, also let us have learned their elaboration of fruitful results.

II. Theoretical Perspectives and Cultural Origins of Feminism