Visual anthropology once mentioned that social ideological trend
is a kind of ideological or behavioral tendency that reflects people’s extensive
influence on life in a specific environment. The reasons why contemporary
popular film and television dramas can become the mainstream at present are
various. Sometimes a whirlwind can arise in a short time through commercial
interests and media hype. However, most of the highly praised film and
television works are often screened and eliminated through time. Film and
television dramas with high praise and high broadcasting rate can be regarded
as representing the majority of the ideas of the people in the country, Throughthe popularization and digitization of the media, with the voice of film and
television media thought dramatists who can represent the resonance of
contemporary ideas, and finally supplemented by the common participation,
praise forwarding and enthusiastic support of the people in film and television
media. Therefore, the key to the formation of social thoughts in contemporary
film and television media. To study the social thoughts referred to by popular
film and television works in a specific period, we should not only investigate
the social psychological trends in that period, but also study various social
ideology. Social trends of thought are the common reflection of civil society
and also the “barometer” of social climate. Representative works of film and
television media will definitely appear in each period. This is the product of the
inevitability of the times. A popular film and television work representing the
country in certain times often reflects the ideological and theoretical level of
the nation. This essay attempts to make a cross-cultural study from the film and
television works of Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Snooping the mainstream
consciousness of civil society and ideological value of spiritual civilization from
contemporary popular film and television works.