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Urban Image And Urban Culture Expression In The Chinese Movie Of ChongQing From 2000

Posted on:2012-07-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335456233Subject:Communication
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Since the 1990s China started the astounding urbanization sport, to the early 21st reached its climax. Massive urbanization not only changed the city's appearance, formed a lot of large city, also made a profound influence on the modernization of China, and creating highly Chinese characteristics of urban culture atmosphere, Its specific performance:modernity and postmodernity coexist, the traditional spirit and era culture motivation conflict, eastern and western development is not balanced. In this era backdrop, reviewing and thinking of urbanization in the intense Chinese metropolis culture and city appearance has significant meaning.Chongqing as a emerging international metropolis, Compared to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other after the reform and opening the first complete urbanization in China, whether its geographical feature, or the urbanization process of the special historical experiences and the modern background, in the whole Chinese society seem both characteristics and the general representative. Because Chongqing are during social transformation period of urban culture connotation, so studying its urban clture has very important academic value for Chinese urban culture and the affects of urbanization. Taking the urban culture study at home and abroad theories, such as space theory, social geography and culture etc, we can think about chongqing urban culture roundly.This article chooses urban films as a research breakthrough point, to show some important characteristics of urban culture through the analysis of the text of images, to summarise all the meanings. In the 20th century, chongqing's image spread,and is not enough systematic and complete. But in the 21st century, numerous movie and TV of chongqing works favored Chongqing, and it became an emerging film city. The theme of chongqing's urban films is centralized, this phenomenon itself not only has an important cultural significance, also provides convenience for this study. This article has selected 8 chongqing's urban films from 2000, "Curiosity Kills the Cat", "Lost, Indulgence", "Shuang Shi Ji", "Chongqing Blues", "Zhou Yu's Train", "Still Life", "Crazy Stone", "Life Show" and so on, Using the classical theory of urban culture, combined with chongqing's history and economic development stage, analyse those text roundly, summarizes the characteristics of chongqing's image and urban cultural expression. Of course above 8 movie are only some side of chongqing,and the films also are not the actual chongqing completely, but somewhat these can reflect the city's reality and its spirit temperament, which highlights the differences between Chongqing and other urban.
Keywords/Search Tags:Urban Movie, Urban Space, Urban Culture, ChongQing Image
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