进入新世纪,影视的社会作用已不仅局限在政治领域,更是现代人监视世界、协调社会、传承文化、提供娱乐的主要渠道,其传播功能得到全面复兴。西部题材影视在艺术观念上追求影戏向影像的转变,在艺术内容上追求主题人物的多元与丰满,在艺术思想上追求对时代和人物的独特认识。 In the new century, the social function of film and television has not only been confined to the political field, but also the main channel through which the modern people watch the world, coordinate society, inherit culture and provide entertainment. The function of communication has been fully revived. Western theme film and television in the pursuit of artistic conception of film and television to the transformation of the content of the pursuit of the theme of the number of multi-faceted and plump, the pursuit of art in the unique understanding of the times and characters.