A Study On The Evolution Of Christmas-themed Movie

Festival culture is a concentrated embodiment of the spiritual style and value orientation of a country and a nation.In the context of globalization,the exchanges between countries are increasingly frequent.As a ritual and spiritual coexist,festival culture has become the favorite of the world exchange meeting.Among all the festivals in the world,Christmas is a special existence--with its spirit of equality,fraternity and dedication,after a century of enrichment and development,It has become the festival with the largest number of participants and the widest range of celebrations in the world.Media plays a huge role in the continuous development of Christmas.In a sense,the creation of Christmas themed films develops along with the development of film art.Generally speaking,the creation has gone through four stages: original stage,exploration stage,transformation stage and modern stage.The Christmas theme concepts and spiritual connotations conveyed by each stage are unified with social reality and value pursuit.Elements from the original phase of the stack,push again and again,to critically discuss and communicate the Christmas spirit,to power participation main body in the reshaping of the social reality of self-salvation,Christmas movie creation path is based on the social reality,Christmas film is constantly seeking new breakthrough,from the social reality,it always can give the public a reason must be for Christmas,Whether it is the excavation of spiritual value,or the subjectivity exploration of self-salvation.Through the renewal and reform of festive elements and ritual meanings,the connotation and denotation significance of Christmas are constantly expanded to promote the change of Christmas cultural significance,which is constantly changing with the cultural development of the society and the reform of social structure.Through sorting out the Christmas theme movies,it is concluded that commercial practices promote the timing model,the theme spirit closely follows the social concept,the industrial development results in the number of creation,and the rerelease phenomenon focuses on the characteristics of social mentality.In the process of the development of Christmas-themed films,while retaining traditional holiday rituals and creating new ones,the film itself has also become a part of the ceremony.Film and society are interactive,not one-sided.The festival culture in the film has changed from religion-based to sentient beings,and gradually become secularized under the influence of mass communication.The characters constantly break through the traditional narrative mode of identity,gender and role and change to the subjectivity of role.As the first of the traditional festivals,the Spring Festival has a longer history and richer cultural connotation than the Traditional Christmas festival.It is the source of its eternal vitality that truly changes with the development of society.