Cultural Production And Construction Of National Utopia

From 1964 to 1976, the Chinese drama stage presented a more flourishing picture than ever before, the model opera with a overwhelming posture occupied the national drama stage, and finally occupied the entire literary stage at"the Great Cultural Revolution". As the official literary arts of"the Great Cultural Revolution", model operas have a great association of Yan'an literature, the liberated area literature,"17 years"literature in the proletariat literature camp, which are all focus on direct writing and comprehensive expression of mainstream ideology, but"model opera", then develops into a more violent way. Already with difficulty drew a clear line of demarcation in the literary production and the political activity"the Great Cultural Revolution"the time, the political idea, the political intention pass"the model play this art carrier"to unfold inevitably, therefore,"the model opera"in materially is"politics"the directness"esthetics", is country ideology direct writing, is the national Utopia imagination puts to the reality the artistic carrier. This article divides into the following four parts specifically:The first part mainly elaborated the model play occurs the historical linguistic environment, pointed out the model play is starts after the 40s Yan'an rectification of literature movement, after a traditional drama modernization reform's 30 year repeated difficulties, is following the different time different politics demand, establishes finally in"the Great Cultural Revolution"the time drama idealization reproductive pattern.The second part determines the nature of from model play's main thought and the manifestation it as esthetics political Utopia, pointed out that the model play is the construction which realizes through the latent social class, obviously has indicated the national culture connotation in the place, and through the stage performance's symbol, causes the performance which the country ideology can be clear.The third part begins from model play's artistic characteristic, to point out the model play, in carried on and broke through take the Peking opera as in representative's traditional drama's artistic technique foundation, its stylization and did the symbol, how enjoyable coordinate the political demand, displayed in the subject the country ideology, and was following"three prominent"and"the basic task theory"strictly in the creation principle's foundation, has ended in the political content"perfectly"artistic carrier.The fourth part through to the ideology in the model play work's production, the development and in the unceasing conformity's process's entire journey monitoring, pointed out that the country ideology in entire process's absolute dominant status, the model play in materially is one kind of country narrates with the political metaphor, is the ruling class and even whole nation's national Utopia imagination."Model opera"as the bridge of cultural production and the national ideology in"the Great Cultural Revolution", solved the contradictory between"the revolutionary political content"and"nearly possible perfect artistic form". This article takes the object of study on the eight model operas by"the Great Cultural Revolution", cuts into"the model operas"from the national narrative angle the creation, the development process, has discussed the interactive the intrinsic connection between the cultural production and the ideology.