A Study On Film Adaptation In Gender Perspective

In the 1970 s and 1980 s,the western perception of film and gender relations was expanded by the infiltration of feminism,and the feminist film criticism arose.Feminist film critics hold that the content of Hollywood traditional narrative films is not consistent with reality,especially the portrayal and expression of female images,which is a visual system deliberately constructed in view of the relationship between gender rights and rights.In the early 1990 s,feminist film criticism entered a prosperous period.Feminist film criticism theory developed rapidly in the United States,which challenged the established mode of American film criticism theory and changed people's original female subject.Understanding the meaning of the movie.In late 90 s,Third World Feminism,the rise of Transnational Feminism,further feminism and gender studies extended to a global scale.In the Transnational Feminism under the impact of feminist film has entered a new historical stage.Although China does not have a strong female movement background in western countries,feminist criticism theory and research on women's themes have never been absent in the study of Chinese films.But the gender debate has often linked film female characters to the social,political,and class status of women in real history.It was not until the late 1980 s that Chinese theorists began to realize the independent significance of gender studies,and gender studies began to break away from state and official political discourse.By the 1990 s,feminist criticism had gradually become a relatively independent academic field in Chinese film studies.In recent years,the adaptation of Shanghai style films has attracted wide attention from feminist critics.Shanghai,an early modern city in China,gave birth to the earliest "new women" with modern characteristics,and provided space for the growth of this kind of image.Among the works of Shanghai writers deeply influenced by Shanghai's urban culture,thereis always a "modern girl" and "new woman" who lives in the background of Shanghai city and does not confluence with the common customs.Shanghai literary circles have formed the urban writing with the background of Shanghai urban culture and paying attention to the living state and psychological state of women.This writing has become a literary style,by a large number of its acceptance The writer of influence draws lessons from.Such as Zhang Ailing,Wang Anyi,Wei Hui,Mianmian these new and old women writers in Shanghai,as well as with the style of women writers Li Bihua,Yan Geling,Anne Baby,Xinyi Wu and other female writers.They take the city as the background,take the female as the narrative focus,directly or indirectly embodies the style characteristic of the Shanghai school.In their writings,the city is read into a concrete female body,and becomes a female individual who is difficult or unable to "gaze".Many of their works have been adapted into films since the new era.From the gender point of view,according to the common sense,female directors are more able to dig out the connotation of their works.In fact,male directors can also adapt successful films.They have a different gender attitude than women writers,women directors,but can make the film multicultural.In the seemingly simple adaptation,however,there is a deep gender power relationship.Therefore,this article mainly Shanghai style female writers since the new period as the research object,the cinematic adaptation of classic literature in the gender perspective to explore literary transformation process in the film to the present a complicated relationship,added Chinese film adaptation research theory,at the same time provide literature into film language better experience for reference.