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Modernity And Cultural Approval Of Chinese Movie In The Global Time, By Zhang Yimou, Xu Ke And Ang Lee As Examples

Posted on:2010-04-27Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360278978050Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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This article bases on the globalized background, takes contemporary renowned Chinese Director Zhang Yimou, Xu Ke, Ang Lee as the example, carefully examines and combs the Chinese movie's overall characteristic and individuality style ,from the modernity and the cultural approval's angle of view。The author proposed for the first time four kinds of main Chinese movie modernity type, namely"the Enlightment modernity","the entertainment modernity","the daily modernity"and"the legendary modernity", and unifies three director's principal productions to carry on concrete and thorough text analysis separately.The paper is composed of three parts,the introductory remarks, the main text and the conclusion. And the main text divides into five chapters in all.The introductory remarks part defines clearly and limits four important concepts ,"the globalization","the modernity","the cultural approval"as well as"Chinese movie", and promulgates their logic relations. The author proposed: The movie and Chinese movie are not only the product of"the globalization"and"the modernity", simultaneously is also the important"the hand slap"of cultural globalization and modernity. In the globalized time, Chinese directors are facing a common problem: How to display the contradictory and confusion between the Western modernity and the China traditional culture approval in films.The first chapter summarizes and analies the overall characteristic that Zhang Yimou, Xu Ke and Ang Lee are separately on behalf of the Englightment modernity,the entertainment modernity and the daily modernity in Chinese movie.The author pointed out that they have new historical knight-errant movies of"the legendary modernity"together.The second chapter takes the Zhang Yimou movie as the example, study the Englightment modernity of"the red trilogy"as well as"The City of Golden Armor".The authou thought that the Western audience and the researcher misrepresent the Englightment modernity of the Zhang Yimou movie as the explanation of the West imagines.The third chapter discusses the main movie of Xu Ke from the angle of entertainment modernity view ,thought that because of the expenditure cultural in Hong Kong commercial society, Xu Ke pays great attention to adapt Hong Kong mass culture entertaining reality request, during the pursue modernity ideological concept and expression means of art.The fourth chapter takes Ang Lee's"the family trilogy"and " Lust, Caution " as the example, studies the contradiction and conflict between the modernity and the cultural approval, and pointed out his movie has manifested Chinese movie artistic feature and individual style of"the daily modernity"The fifth rules from the legendary modernity angle of view, study he new historical knight-errant movie ,"Huang Feihong", "Crouching tiger, hidden dragon" and "Hero" ,and manifests the significance of the modernity content and the cultural approval separately. This chapter belongs to the research between the different artistic style and the cultural approval dimension of three directors in identical movie themeThe conclusion summarizes the full text.The author thought: Xu Ke is early, Zhang Yimou is next, Ang Lee is latest of becoming famous in the movie,. Zhang Yimou is skilled in the photographic picture and the color utilization, but lacks the ability of narration; Ang Lee excels in the movie to narrate with the thought excavation, and also becomes visible suspicion of the fixed pattern; Xu Ke's technology is comprehensive,and he pays great attention the stunt and the innovation, but seemed to be that lacks the ability to do what one would like the feeling. Zhang Yimou's movie is adapting the time request, critique traditional culture by the standpoint of the Enlightenment modernity; Ang Lee bases the social life of the West daily modernity, reveals his attachment and the nostalgia of the traditional culture; Xu Ke swallows everything uncritically between the China traditional culture and the modernity , and his movie manifests"China and the West culture mix"and"the entertainment modernity"characteristic of Chinese movie.
Keywords/Search Tags:globalization, chinese movie, modernity, culture approval
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