Research On The Youth Culture In Movies And TV Dramas Of Metropolis Theme Since1990s

The thesis studies on the metropolis TV drama of90s. Observing the chosencases which can be the audio visual art, consuming art production and spreading andconstructing cultural narrative shows. The theories and methods concerning culturalstudy, literature and art study and society study are used to comb, analyze and explorethe youth culture.The thesis is to reveal the trend of youth culture through the thought, innovationof the youth, and the quickly-spread emotions and ideas, thinking mode, valueorientation, aesthetic taste and the lifestyle among the young. Meanwhile, that’s alsothe point to study the relationship between the creation of shows concerning urban lifeand the youth culture. The TV drama of90s is the window of recognizing,understanding, grasping and reflecting the youth culture.Firstly the thesis discusses the concept of youth culture, taking “the young” as acultural concept to recognize, define and judge. Tracing back the start and surge ofcurrent youth culture, the author summarizes the core of youth culture——subcultureand hmarginal position and comb the process of Chinese modern and contemporaryyouth cultural development. Youth culture is closely related to the society. Youthculture appearing in the TV drama is the most alive slice of society. Therefore, theyouth culture appearing in the TV drama of90s sets the background and endows thesignificance. The mainstream culture of youth culture is pointed out, the subcultureevolves or incorporate into attitude, atmosphere and aesthetics.Next it is going to discuss the metropolis spacial narrative in youth culture andTV dramas. Exploring the metropolis space is of vital importance. The sensory andmental experience, even the feelings and conditions the landscape metropolis bringingabout are the important background and mental factor. And is is to analyze themetropolis spacial landscape effect, materialism effect and development effect on theyouth culture. Meanwhile to observe the young people how to be in the atmosphere ofinterpersonal alienation through the TV drama. Then it is to analyze the lifestyle and cultural features of the young from the TVdrama since the90s.;The controversial works, having both the box-office and theconcerns, are chosen as the cases to see the youth culture diversion of thepost-modernity; to see the youth culture how to grasp the control of the significanceexpression from formed behavior; to see how to convert the anonymous awarenessinto obvious awareness; to see the process of how the youth culture embodied by thecommercial culture and the reproduction of the youth culture applied and rebuilt bycommercial culture from the view of culture spreading; to see the multiple criticismtowards hedonism reflected from the hedonism-featured shows and luxury lifestyle inyouth culture; to find the reason and results of the dream rebuilding in youth cultureon the standing of recognition of youth recall and the fast nostalgia.In the fourth part, from the interactive mode of youth culture and through thecondition of the inter-generation interaction, author reveals the features ofpre-figurative culture, co-figurative culture and post-figurative culture. The authoralso analyzes the80’s in the TV drama to find the solution to the conflict. Revealingthe communication and conflict between the young and the senior in thepost-figurative time through the ethical play to criticize the tendency appearing in theTV drama. By observing the different internet culture between the90s and the newcentury through the mingling of new media to demonstrate that the entertainment andfast food style in the youth culture is not good to the culture accumulation.In the fifth part, from the perspectives of genders, the author analyzes theaffection and lives of youth people in metropolis, pays attention to the expansion offemale space and the power problems. And the author reveals that the conflict ofgender rights between male and female youth in metropolis, and the body’smaterialization tendency and other social problems aroused from this conflict.Reflecting the loss of gender temperament from the appearance of the “sheng nv” and“nuan nan”.The last part is about the alternative expression of the youth culture. Theexpressions were very outstanding in a particular time of90s, such as at-risk youth,deviant behavior and rock music, which were intensive and strong. However theOtaku culture is reflected in the TV drama of new century. These alternativeexpressions are presenting their distinctive features and significance with thedevelopment of the times. And the process of changing demonstrate the fate of theyouth culture.by the metropolis young people and is the culture block with most tension and vitality. Youth culture is always leading the society, exploring the complexconflicts in the metropolis consuming society. The TV production puts focus on theyouth, takes a grasp of the creating trend since90s, including cultural practice, cultureincorporation, culture steering, and culture symptom. The surge and change reflect therhythm of the times. In the term of macro aspect, the whole society is having the trendof rejuvenation.