The Movie And TV Adaptation Of Strange Tales Of A Lonely Studio

Movie and TV art, as one young art, is sucking nutrition from a lot of arts during its maturation process. Literary works adaptation is an important part of movie and TV art. Since the twenties last century, movie and TV drama works adapted from Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio have been abundant and had prosperous trend. Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio has potential characteristics to be adapted into movie and TV dramas because its story plots are twists and eccentric, the deep thought intention becomes newer as time goes by and the narration ways are various and mature. It's difficult to adapt short classical Chinese novels. How to add and cut so that it is able to both be faithful to the original works and have creation? There is more or less difference between movies and TV dramas or different versions. The difference has many aspects and also be related to each movie and TV drama's taste, quality and traditional culture inheritance. The thesis tries to explain the adaptation and the difference from the text factors, the present adaptation situation, case analysis, the adaptation idea, aesthetic acceptance and so on. It also tries to explore the close relationship between novel text and movie and TV works and expects to make a reference function to the adaptation of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio in the future.The thesis is divided into 4 chapters. Each chapter is both independent and connective.The first chapter explores the potential characteristics of film and TV adaptation and present adaptation situation of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio. Literature and film and TV art are the same and interlinked in their essential features, basic rules, esthetics characteristics and expression means. The unique art individualities of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio, such as the fox's gods and ghosts color, all sorts of strange and unusual foreign land mirage, the marketplace characters have provided advantages for the transformation from the text to film and television. The adaptation of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio probably has three periods, the germination period from 1922 to 1949, the development period from 1949 to the late 80s, the prosperous period from the late 80s until now.The second chapter studies the transformation from the text to image of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio. The first of the adaptation of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio is the selection of stories from the text. The selection has the universal characteristics of emphasizing love thesis, criticizing society and enlightening the moral, pursuing the plot and character's legendary and so on. There are three kinds of differences in the quantity of absorption from the original work, being faithful to the original work primarily, catering to the market demands and using the text as a pretext, and deriving part of the original work and creating suitably.The third chapter takes the 1986 edition of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio TV series as a model and analyzes the artistic achievement that the adaptation works have obtained. The using of thought imagery, the design of character relations, and the excavation of work idea have become an universal phenomenon in 1986 edition of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio series.The fourth chapter explores the aesthetic acceptance of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio from acceptance esthetics angle. The different period's directors make their works to adapt people's value and esthetic idea of that period through adapting original work's main idea, plot structure and language. The contemporary audience's different age, cultural level and experience result their different angles of view and psychology of appreciating adaptation works of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio and also caused the different styles of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio adaptation works. Audience's different acceptance mode of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio adaptation works and adapter's different acceptance idea and modern explanation of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio also permeate in the adaptation works.