在好莱坞的鼎盛时期,美国电影是一个庞大的企业部门,它的投资和收入可以与汽车、罐头、钢铁、石油等美国最大的工业部门并驾齐驱。但是近一二十年来,美国电影企业状况,已是今非昔比。以好莱坞八大制片厂为主的美国制片商为了挽回颓局,已把美国电影引上了可悲的歧途。在七十年代的美国电影中,暴力与色情倾向正象瘟疫一样恶性发展。即使按美国标准来看,也有近一半影片对青少年有毒,其中绝大部分是露骨地宣传暴力或色情。最有影响的两 At the heyday of Hollywood, American film was a huge corporate unit whose investments and revenues kept pace with America’s largest industrial unit, including cars, cans, steel, and oil. But in the past one or two decades, the state of the U.S. movie industry is not what it used to be. American studios, which are dominated by the eight major studios in Hollywood, have drawn the sad filming of American cinema in order to restore its frustration. In the American films of the 1970s, violence and pornography tended to grow as viciously as the plague. Nearly half of the films, even by American standards, are toxic to young people, most of whom are explicitly advocating violence or pornography. The most influential two