On The Identity Consciousness And Cultural Identification In Ang's Movies

Base on the success of the Ang Lee, it is available to interpretate the Ang Lee's contemporary culture identity from multiple points, and the factor cased the confusion and challenge. Lee has been influenced with the multiple culture in Taiwan, mainland and the United States. In Taiwan, he was regarded a clods second-generation, not a native Taiwan; Relative to China mainland. He has cultural estrangement for his Taiwan identity; Besides, Relative to American he was a foreigner. The road to lacate his identity recognition was in difficulties due to these multi-outsider position, as well as he payed close attention to the issue of identity recognition in his films by the contradictory position.In the situation of globalization and cultural pluralism, the individual consciousness about the"national identity"and the"cultural identity"in the Chinese films by director Ang Lee, penetrated expressing connotation and cultural psychology about his complex filming experience as a Chinese director. The "Chinese" and "American" figure by molded in Ang Lee's films embodied his textual strategy for his cultural identity when he has working hard in Hollywood as a chinese american. For there works by directed Ang Lee, their subject is diversity, and the Chinese-Western Culture presented frequently. But there was always a main theme there that the self-awareness and identity in his works.The thesis attempts to explore the self-posintion and his identity by analyzing the films of Chinese American director Ang Lee. With reading of Ang Lee's works, the thesis stressed textual history and context. the study has established research background in history of films, the chapter one is about the change of cultural identity in the process of globalization. The author considers that it is outside fact to build Ang Lee's cultural identity , which is the changing characteristics of identity in the text of globalization.The chapter two is about combing the Ang Lee's works, in order to discribe the identity of the Chinese traditional culture, and to discuss the object for "Chinese culture" and the "image of China". Furthermore, this chpter tap the"home"imagery in Ang Lee's film, which is a symbol of "Chinese culture" and "Chinese identity" reflecting the unique identity Ang Lee. The imitiation theme of the film image of characters reveal Ang Lee's individual pursit for him cultural identity and identity crisis, which is the embodiment cultural crisis of a Chinese-American director Ang Lee as director living in American society;The chapter three is about analyzing Ang Lee's pursuit of"identity"in the other context.