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The Emergence Of Alternative Fantasy Deconstructive Recreational Attitude

Posted on:2012-07-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330344452091Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The typical optical impression culture with pronounced political color once constructed the existent background of optical impression culture reflecting Chinese theme. However, in the changing times, this optical impression gradually presents some limitation and conservatism. And at the turn of century, atypical optical impression becomes popular by representation of uncertainty, vulgarization, controversy, fantasy, alternative, recreation, new media orientation, diversification and other emerging culture, which is different from the significance and characteristics of the theme.Partâ… As one of outstanding representation forms of Chinese images in contemporary society, reasonless humor movies could be interpreted in cultural theory. And its discontinuous and illogical video practice becomes understandable with increasing penetration of postmodern concept. Meanwhile, based on the understanding of cultural functions towards visual images, reasonless humor movies also offer a particular intellectual construction. Therefore, the cultural significance of these fragmental video images could be interpreted through perception of correspondence and arbitrariness.Reasonless humor movies of Stephan Chow and other actors inherit the tradition of Hong Kong comedy, forming a rebellious postmodern recreation optical impression. Whether in theme, subject matter, characters or in plot, the reasonless humor movies blend the humanity of secular civilians with the meaning of exaggerated comedy symbol. Moreover, the more prominent feature is characters'language which is a kind of jump thinking, ambiguously logical and humorous "Dahua"form created by reasonless humor movies.Reasonless humor reflects various symptoms of relativism on the understanding of life and world by means of a more updating style of cognizance. The fragmented code of optical impression eliminates the differences between reality and fabrication, in terms of the way to reflect the reality of life, and it references to the significance of real events in a reserved way by extending traces of life in optical impression montage. In addition, the construction of this kind of cultural code exposes and reveals the historical visions in a clear and intentional way. And the fragments of ancient culture also showed the nothingness of historical power of reason. Expression of reasonless humor demonstrates the recreational features of historical utterance.With the spread of media and its strong impact, the reasonless humor culture not only continuously entertains the public in the field of movie and TV, but also extensively exerts a great influence on the optical impression and expression of the other media culture. After the 1990s, whether in Hong Kong, Taiwan or mainland, a lot of comedy movies and TV scene plays have been absorbing the plot constructions of reasonless humor and the joking collage forms. Meanwhile, TV variety shows and the opera shows in these three areas also inherit or echo the interpreting consciousness and the entertainment spirit of the reasonless humor culture.With the emerging of net medium, online writing has developed a style of reasonless humor and fashionable explanation. Likewise, the netizens of character, who are in the free imagination and multicultural exploration, alternatively contemplate the social culture with fragmentary words. Towards the social culture, such net codes make a deconstructive or even vulgar joking in the spirit of recreation. Its style of reasonless humor as well as talk nonsense makes the online writing a special expressive trend, which is becoming more energetic.Partâ…¡The current historical play on movies and TV becomes prosperous in entertaining production which has the theme presented in a rich and dazzling extravagance. However such mode of historical play not only adopts the expression which fades the "truth of history", but also ignores and blurs the general acceptance of existing history. This results in the lack of the integrity of culture intellectuality and the presence of a new virtual illusion of culture and panorama.The creation of historical play on movies and TV is essentially a reinterpretation of fictional history. And the historical optical impressions, no matter displayed in a joking or non-joking way, are slices of contemporary culture with integrated and adaptive meaning. Rewriting the historical drama in such a subjective and fictional manner is a common tradition in the writing of historical culture in ancient China. Therefore, the creating essence of present historical drama on movies and TV, which is joking and fictional, can be established in the sense of recreation for the public entertainment aesthetic.As a kind of suppositional impression environment constructed by optical impression symbol, optical historical play is also an existence of consumption culture tallying with the audience's psychology. In addition, basing on the historical optical impression system which reflects some cotemporary social problems, it is consoling fantastically the contemporary masses'various social confusion and expectation. It's common interesting and emotional statements basically insist on non-Western national traditional aesthetics consciousness and custom.Most of the historical plays of movie and TV, which are about emperors and their generals and ministers, express the consciousness of traditional political culture with a lack of modern scrutinization. Therefore, the traditional political culture, including the similarity between countries and families, the relationship between emperor's domination and people essence and the power in focus, could be reflected. However, its strong sense of feudalism that has been publicized often arouses criticism. Those non-modern conscious elements in the traditional political culture need people to make a further critical consideration.Partâ…¢As a live TV performance, the Reality Show strengthens the real significance in the form of TV optical impression. In Western countries like America, the continuous innovation, integration of different nature of the Reality Show, have become an important stage for people to experience and explore the emerging life interests and wonders. And also, in those Chinese TV Reality programs, they have obtained a rough synchronized development in the process of learning Western optical impressions of the same kind, which produce certain localization features after integrating China's national conditions and cultural factors.Currently, the creation and practice of Chinese local Reality Show is very complicated. All kinds of variety reality shows focusing on entertaining, competition reality show focus on winning, life reality show focusing on experiencing, provide an outstanding and rich new entertainment experience for Chinese mass society. From the perspective of cultural sense, these programs, as a sort of reflection of the real social and cultural landscape, vividly represent and symbolize a variety of human imagination and modality, such as civil dram, heroic complex, grassroots'democracy, realistic competition, true human nature in mass society.From the angle of the fundamental structure, the obvious existing phenomenon is that the domestic reality TV shows imitate foreign programs and copy other domestic programs. This duplication about postmodern consuming culture impression has its special significance for the art of post-industrial inflexible copy. And it also includes the alternative factors to inspire creation by imitating and copying. However, a lack of original creation of Chinese reality TV shows also cause the anxiety of the problems on how to copy, how to refer and how to advance in current production of programs.China's TV programs'striving for a higher audience rating gradually shows that the commercial benefit behind it has become a force which stimulates the Reality Show to update. Forced by the concept of the higher audience rating, the Reality Show has to cater to the taste and emotional pleasure of the audiences. However, in such situation, some Reality Show exploration, though were criticized, have indicated the relations between mainstream value and real entertainment culture.Partâ…£The emergence and development of Internet and multimedia video technology urge the mass to change their mode of appreciating optical impression without movie and TV. Given this data, a lot of optical impression production and communication means have appeared. The jokingly-imitated words, poems and fashionable words on the Internet form the background and elements of optical impressions'practical joke. The mass of the Internet gain a brand new space of mocking and recreation culture. In the process of deconstructive exploration of the means of optical impression, all kinds of jokingly recreated videos come flooding to the Internet.Hu Ge is a representative who triggers a wave of practical joke videos on the Internet and his self-made videos are also regarded as typical works. The videos created by him not only initiate the netizens to make jokes and enjoy entertainment, but also make an allegorical criticism on the current reality and cultural phenomenon. The prevalence of practical joke videos indicates a consideration of the legalized non-practical joke. But there are also limitations of this approach, and the fixed virtual image of some orthodox optical impression needs to be reflected.Practical joke video on the Internet is a fantastic new trend of subculture among the youth. It exudes the acute rebellion thinking in the mainstream of elite culture. However, it is obvious that various coarse form and crude means that exist in such kind of subculture has a disruptive effect on the typical culture of the society. Therefore, the greatest value of cyber practical joke subculture lies in the manifestation of innovating culture awareness---getting rid of the stale and bringing forth the fresh, and in its expression on the youth's self-adaptation on independent utterance.As the practical joke culture is being feverishly spread by the public, entertainment culture has trapped into a disputation as whether to follow the moral baseline or to pursue freedom. The continuity of such disputation leads to managerial dilemma of practical joke culture. One way to solve this problem is to regulate it by bringing it into norms of law. In the meantime, the whole society should enhance tolerance and open communication.The atypical optical impression text has abandoned parts of the objective purport of the orthodox optical impression and strengthened various rebellious features of playfulness and entertainment. As a culture symbol of dissimilation, it also has some negative effects on social subculture and lead to various disputes off and on. However, nowadays the social culture is becoming more and more liberal and tolerant and the emerging cultural atmosphere tends to be more free and diverse, which has provided the space and path for the development of the atypical optical impression text. Therefore, we should keep updating our cultural value and attitude to recognize, review and cleanup it.In the present media era, popular texts represent the abundant context of social culture, whose form and meanings are associated with the turnover of the recognition of social culture and the awareness of consumption and entertainment in the changing fashion of a various media interaction. At the turn of the century, mass texts, particularly, atypical media in print, movie and TV, Internet texts are diversely and jointly constructing the new concept and atmosphere of the mass cultural practice. The exploration in tendency of the current pan-aesthetic media text sense contributes to the positive exploitation and healthy development of culture values and subjective comprehension.
Keywords/Search Tags:atypical recreation optical impression, deconstructive entertainment culture, reasonless humor movie & TV, joking historical play, Reality Show, network practical joke video
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