Cinematic Narration Of Richard Yates’ Novels

Richard Yates(1926-1992),an outstanding contemporary American writer.His novels span the 1940s to 1980s.Because of the profound significance and cultural value of his text,he is known as the "chronicler of the anxiety era".For a long time,Yates has been regarded as one of the realist writers,but growing up in the context of the vigorous development of film culture after World War Ⅱ,Yates’s creative thinking has been influenced by modern films.His novel creation has broken through the shackles of traditional realism and presented a bright color of film.The collection of short stories "eleven kinds of solitude" created in the 1940s intercepts the cross-section of the times in a camera style,objective and cold narrative style,and reproduces the original appearance of American society after the war,It is called"Dubliners of New York".The debut novel "revolutionary road" is Yates’s representative work in his mature period.The novel reproduces the spiritual crisis of the middle class in the United States after the war from a changing perspective and montage time-space transformation.It is followed by destiny,Easter Parade and good school They all tell the stories of ordinary people in a plain and realistic narrative style,thus reflecting the wonders of the times.From the perspective of Filmization,this paper attempts to systematically sort out the relationship between Richard Yates and modern films,and explore the influence of films on Yates’ creation,so as to deeply explore the unique value of his text.The introduction of this paper briefly introduces the life and creative experience of Richard Yates,the research significance of this topic and the research status at home and abroad.The first chapter explores the reasons for Yates’s cinematic narration from two aspects:external and internal reasons.In terms of external causes,the cultural context of the vigorous development of modern film and modernist literature and the era environment of great changes in the United States after the second world war have made Yates bid farewell to the narrative posture of traditional realism and explore and update the form of novels.In terms of internal causes,Yates’s film viewing experience and screenwriting career also make him consciously integrate the film narrative thinking into his novel creation.The second chapter analyzes the cinematic presentation of his novels from the three dimensions of narrative language,narrative perspective and narrative time and space,and points out that Yates breaks through the abstraction of written language,pays attention to the visual modeling and auditory construction of the text,and uses the changeable narrative perspective of the camera to construct a three-dimensional story situation in a multi focus mode.In addition,he breaks through the single narrative mode of time and space,and breaks through the single narrative mode of time and space.The third chapter analyzes the significance of cinematic narration,and points out that Yates’s cinematic narration realizes the unity of form and content,realizes the reproduction of traumatic memory,and deepens the lonely theme of the novel.It is a beneficial attempt made by the Creator under the background of visual culture.