Aesthetic Culture, The Tendencies And Characteristics Of The Contemporary Movie And Television Culture

Aesthetic Culture, the Tendencies and Characteristics of the Contemporary Movie andTelevision CultureAbstract: Starting from the perspectives of critic and perfection, combining the connotation of the current movie and television culture, this present work makes a tentative investigation on the study of the aesthetic culture which is quite hot in the academic and culture domains. In order to mastering the reality that the contemporary aesthetic culture is quite sophisticated and volatile, this work realizes its purpose through a deeply probing into the sophisticated and complex tendencies and characteristics of the movie and television culture, a deciphering the man's aesthetic psyche at the turn of the social-modernization under the lead of the market economy.First, the work, based on the comparison between the China and Western aesthetic culture study, discuss the rational of the conceptualization "aesthetic culture" and the significance of the study. It assumes that aesthetic culture is the fruit bears by the expansion of the modernization and the rising aesthetical awareness of modernization. It is one fraction of the whole human culture, it represent the sensuous system which is tinted with trends of "thought" and "poetry" of human being themselves. The work suggests that aesthetic culture research serves as a postmark of the turn of the role, enables the aesthetics for the life, and life can be upgraded to the aesthetics, and then realize the integrity between the aesthetic endeavor and the living style and status of human being.Movie and television art is the robust strength of the aesthetic culture system, its aesthetic personalities show as the following points: (l) the spirit of public oriented narration; (2)the feature and the lead of active anticipating to the casual masses culture; (3) satisfy the needs of the masses aesthetic as function of amusement. In the view of the aesthetic culture, the contemporary movie and television art reflect the following features under the background of the invasion of the western movie and television culture: (1) the conflict and compromise between the culture leading and the masses amusement; (2) the paradox and harmony between the artist truism and the commercial value; (3) the reflections and inspiration between the history complex and the modern ideal; (4) the bearing and extension between the modern humanity and the Zeitgeist; (5) the dismemberment of the "national parable" and the dream of "approaching the world".The pluralistic compound tendencies and characteristics of the contemporary aesthetic culture reflects that since the 90s, the sophisticated and pluralistic culture context in the date society, meanwhile look like the spiritual collective nightmare which marks the varying traces and internal tendency of the masses aesthetic culture. They show the following features: (1) the sense emancipation and the sensitivity-exiled; (2) the lost of the eternal care and the discard of the pursuit of the canons; (3) the cherishing of the traditional and the pursuit of the modern order; (4) the affections of the indigenous culture and the lure of the exotic civilization.In essence, the aesthetic culture is the clamor and appeal of today's people's aesthetic ideal and unearthly living status. The Chinese contemporary aesthetic culture has been developing, the full story of it is still demanding further research and study in order to set up its complete theoretical system and to form a perfect culture personality. In the ongoing of the China's social modernization, the sophisticated and volatile story affords the good opportunity to the movie and television art to reflect the facts of contemporary aesthetic culture, and meanwhile a tough challenge as well. Today's aesthetic movie and television culture should try to shake off the"culture industry" ---- the negative rule encountered by the culturephenomena within the worldwide, should base on the critical carry of the traditional culture and reasonably take-ins of the alpha cultures, unfold the...