The Effectiveness of Ideological Communication in Mainstream Films Based on Semantic Networks --Taking the Chinese and American Movie Reviews of Top Gun: Maverick as an Example

Abstract

The co-occurrence networks are used as a tool for examining and interpreting discourse analysis to reveal the attitudes and perceptions implicit in film reviews. Based on the self-constructed corpus of online movie reviews in China and the United States, this research generates co-occurrence word-sense networks and summarizes three frameworks: sequel narrative, heroic narrative, and military narrative, and further reveals and explains the ideologies and linguistic features revealed in the different discourse frames. At the macro level, the Chinese and American audiences evaluation of the film shows different results of medium and medium-high. At the micro level, corresponding to the three frames, Chinese and American audiences construct images of commercial sentiment films and dramatic action films, national propaganda films and Hollywood hero films, U.S. Air Force propaganda films and U.S. Army recruitment advertising films; under the hero narrative frame, individual heroism and collectivism are realized side by side in the audiences discourse; under the military narrative frame, the political identity of transnational narratives is not realized in Chinese audiences.