Research On The Narrative Art Of The Sixth Generation Of Directors

Film art is the combination of visual art,auditory art and narrative art.The narrative theme with wonderful images can create excellent films In the 1990 s,the sixth generation of directors represented by Wang xiaoshuai,Jia zhangke,Lou ye,zhang yuan and lu xuechang entered the film circle with a rebellious attitude.They brought fresh artistic innovation power to the contemporary Chinese film circle.The emergence of the sixth generation of directors’ films has led to a new trend of diversified development of Chinese contemporary film art.Their narrative art has changed from focusing on the development of contemporary Chinese cities to focusing on people and things in the process of urban modernization.Their imagination and reconstruction of social reality fully demonstrate their innovation in narrative art.Wang xiaoshuai,one of the representatives of the sixth generation of directors,is the leading figure.Wang xiaoshuai’s films not only have the artistic commonality of narrative theme and form of the sixth generation of directors,but also have his own outstanding artistic characteristics.Under the cultural background of the current increasing commercial trend,wang xiaoshuai can still stick to his original intention and express his unique cognition of life and times through the images of his works,showing his distinctive film narrative art.The whole paper is divided into six parts: chapter one is the introduction,which points out the research status,significance and research methods of this paper.The films of the sixth generation of directors are selected as the research objects.Chapter two introduces the social background,institutional environment and similar educational experiences of the sixth generation of directors,and then discusses their artistic development.The third chapter,with Wang xiaoshuai’s films in recent years as the main research focus,narrates the similarities and distinctive characteristics of the narrative themes of the sixth generation of directors.The fourth chapter,based on the theory of film narratology,deeply explores the narrative strategies of the sixth generation directors such as Wang xiaoshuai from the perspective of narrative characteristics,structure and perspectives,so as to further analyze and study the narrative art of the sixth generation directors’ films.The fifth chapter elaborates the aesthetic style of films made by directors of the sixth generation,such as Wang xiaoshuai,to show the characteristics of the change of the mass aesthetic psychology,and the gap between the ideal human beauty and the reality of human beauty.The sixth chapter,using the theory of film reception aesthetics "calling structure" and "vision of expectation",discusses the causes and countermeasures of the plight of the sixth generation of directors in film art,analyzes the narrative art of the sixth generation of directors such as wang xiaoshuai,and looks for ways to make breakthroughs.