City Image Of Contemporary TV Drama

This dissertation includes five chapters and it mainly discusses the topic of the city image. The dissertation first defines the concept and meaning of the city image, then it illustrates the topic from the perspectives of choice of the type of the city image, artistic structure, aesthetic features, and the transmission of city image, and eventually it indicate the unique culture connotation of city.The introduction part outlines the study method, contents, some important concepts and the significance of the study.Chapter one defines the concept of the city image, meanwhile, the author broads this concept; to some extent, city means an imagined living space. This chapter also categorized the types of the city image emerged in the process of China's urbanization since 1980's.The emergence of the image of city in TV drama is due to the reasons of visual culture of city in TV drama, the promotion of local government and the local cultural differencesChapter two focuses on the choice of the types of the image of the city. The city image in contemporary TV drama mainly includes natural image, social culture and custom image, people and event image. Different cities have different features, and this will have some impact on the choice of the type of the city image in contemporary TV drama.Chapter three discusses the artistic structure and its features of the image of the city. TV drama is an artistic discipline; the city image in TV drama not only has the characteristics of reality, but also the qualities like similarity, fictionality and personification. This chapter makes a thorough analysis of the combination methods of the image of the city, and explains the correct application of visual and audio elements in TV drama.Chapter four analyzes the aesthetic features of the city image of contemporary TV drama. The city image is a combination of general & specific characteristics. Chapter five studies the relation of transmission of image and city image in TV drama. City image is an important intangible asset which has a great influence to the development of city. To a great extent, people's concept of city image comes from mass media, correspondingly, mass media itself will help to create city image. This chapter also conducts an analysis of transmission contents, function and effect.The conclusion part points out that every city's nature, humanity and geography, architectures and local customs will influence the city's special spirit connotations. This sprit will determine and influence the city's destiny and distinguished feature, and it will become an effect way to illustrate the city sprit. Meanwhile, city itself has visual culture connotation, and by the way of watching TV, the audience can intuitively understand the history and reality, and experience the society and culture of the city. As a new media, TV drama has a unique function in the transmission of the city image, in other words, the focus on city image of contemporary TV drama is deeply related with that of city image transmission.