期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：3
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Studies about the role of media in shaping people’s minds have recently becomepopular. “Angel city” is a play written by Sam Shepard dealing with Hollywood movies thatshows how art is used in this industry as a commodity at the hands of capitalists. This article isan attempt to explore the ideas of some postmodern critics like Michael Foucault, Jean-FrançoisLyotard and Jean Baudrillard to maintain how Hollywood, as a great entertainment industry, isat the service of capitalism; thus by virtue of the knowledge the three magnets of the play haveand through manipulating the characters Shepard wants to indicate how their chief goal is toearn money to gain profit.
