Foreigner,Modernization,Identity:the Nostalgia Of Youth Films In Taiwan

Looking back at the dozens of years of Taiwanese films,whether brilliant or bumpy,at every stage of development,there are some youth films that have become the masterpieces of that stage,supporting the film industry that has been stormy in Taiwan several times.Yang Dechang once expressed that "Taiwan movies only have youth movies and other movies",which shows the speciality and importance of youth movies in Taiwanese movies.Through research on Taiwanese youth films,the author finds that the director and protagonist of each youth film unfolds their own story expression in endless nostalgia.As a psychological mechanism and emotional function of human beings,nostalgia has long become a common social and cultural landscape,which has aroused widespread concern in academia.However,judging from the existing research results on both sides of the strait,when conducting research on "Taiwan Youth Film",scholars mostly start with the analysis of narratology,aesthetics,and character image,and few people analyze and discuss from the perspective of nostalgia.However,the combination of youth films and nostalgic complexes is in the limelight,and has not faded in the short term.Therefore,there is a lot of research space to explore the nostalgic complex in Taiwanese youth movies.Based on this,this article refers to the theories of "nostalgia" carried out by foreign scholars Roland Robertson,Boyim,Davis and domestic scholar Zhao Jingrong.First of all,this article sorts out the development of Taiwanese youth movies,and enumerates and counts the nostalgic feelings.Secondly,focusing on the more representative films in Taiwan ’s new film period,post-new film period and Taigao generation,the nostalgic background,the nostalgic subject,the nostalgic object,and the nostalgic motives are summarized and compared.How does the youth movie respond to the situation of Taiwanese society through nostalgia,stitching the gap between the past and the present.Then,we combined the graduation work "20+" to analyze the image writing of nostalgia in Taiwanese youth films.Here,the use of sound strengthens the nostalgic expression,the color highlights the nostalgic existence style,the flashback becomes the time carrier of the nostalgic complex,and the symbols facilitate the invisible writing of thenostalgic complex.Finally,it reflects and criticizes the problems existing in Taiwan’s youth films at this stage,and looks forward to how to develop the nostalgia complex in youth films based on Boym’s "Nostalgic Future".