The Age Of Consumption: Research From Novels To Film Adaptations

This paper takes China's entry into the consumption age as the background,and has made a multi-dimensional and multi-angle study on the novel of one of China's important cultural phenomena since the consumption era.This thesis is divided into five chapters in addition to the introduction.Chapter one discusses the evolution of the historical view in the process of the novel text to the film adaptation.From the western philosophical theory and literary tradition,the thoughts of Russell and Foucault constantly influence the development of Chinese literature.The concept of "right--discourse" from the west to the east,through the infiltration of ancient Oriental civilization,from the novel text to the movies are full of profound imagination,both in terms of "fiction history to historical fiction",or from the"revolutionary history novels to the new historical novel to the new historicist novels",in the view of literature,how to present the history,surrounded by history,represent the history,history is an important core.In the development of the planned economy to the consumption economy,from the text of the novel to the transformation of the movie,the historical view has undergone changes.This chapter focuses on which paticular historical concepts that have been faded and what new ideas are emerging.The second chapter focuses on the aesthetic evolution of novels and films.The traditional style of implication is blurred on the consumption age,and the "visual hegemony" of fast food instead of the classic aesthetic view.From the pursuit of heroism to the current consumption,youth consumption and physical consumption,the trend of "daily life" has emerged.In this chapter about the resolution of elitism,aesthetic reutilized main problems,such as the novel text itself changes and adaptation process of evolution,the theme of the study of how to grasp the literature and film"aesthetic" element transformation and innovation in art.The third chapter focuses on from novels to film change,the main characters symbolization.Since the beginning of literature and seventeen years of literature,the"people" in the text of the novel have always existed in a very intuitive and independent foothold.In the age of consumption,a large number of symbolic roles are filled with words and images in the face of exploding visual images.The personality and self-absence of "people" flow into a "template" expression pattern.From "character" to"symbol character",it is a kind of lazy and retarded in from text to film adaptation,which is a very contradictory phenomenon.The more the idea is free and open,the extension of the "role" is more and more slowly and formalized,which has to be reflected by the author and director.The fourth chapter focuses on the discussion of "nationality" from the novel to the film adaptation.The chapter is divided into two sections.One is the "adaptation" in western capitalism expansion,emphasis on European consumption idea unceasingly under the invasion of the mainland's reality,as an ideological indoctrination and aesthetic education function of literature and film and television works,how the dazzling material consumption of temptation alone.The second is the expression of the national evolution of literary works and film adaptations.From "text to the road" to"paper drunk," we need to find a way to self-hold in the growing confidence of consumption and the growing heroism of our heroes.Chapter five relative to the chapters four will be more meticulous,mainly by the literary language and the details of the film language text contrast research to understand the novel to the transformation of the film adaptation works the most direct way.This section focuses on the comparative analysis of novel text and film passages.Although literature linear narrative way with words to express the theme,the film is based on visual and auditory communication subject,drawing through sound,light,trinity comprehensive role in lens,thus showing to express the thought connotation,but both still maintained a certain similar in the middle of the artistic performance.For example,narrative elements,rhetorical devices and symbolic expressions can provide the corresponding packaging for art.With the new consumption of art creation,the novel and film adaptations have been developed in different degrees.Adaptation of film adapted from text to image also got more valuable experience,the other elements of literariness and film elements in the "change" and "make up" in the process of gradually realize the "marriage" of happiness.But due to some adapter ignored the established rules of artistic transformation,blind and tough to "pass" from literature to film and television also makes some adapted works appear "indifference",these are we on the road of research "adaptation" inevitable important issues.The conclusion part is about the embarrassing situation Chinese films adaptation in the era of consumption,and it is still a bit too urgent for the current adaptation of novels and films.In the face of the temptation of The Times,the movie adaptation still needs to be more perfected and deepened.Images such as the alienation of literature and the nature of the relationship,blocking both the artistic quality of communication and veins,blunt the novel text and film "grafting",it will make some "malnutrition".Therefore,we still need to guide the recompose behavior,forward to more high-quality artistic products.