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Culture Deconstruction And Rreconstruction In Interculture Communication

Posted on:2010-10-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278474088Subject:Communication
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As a kind of image media, across the countries, nations, and languages, Film can express what it means with only images, music, gesture or even a smile, in order to achieve its purpose of exchange and communication. And the global mode of transmission and distribution has made the film becoming a global spread of vector. The film can spread its inherent culture across different countries than the other media. So the film is one of the most important means of cultural communication, cultural exchange, cultural trade and cultural impact across the various national, regional and ethnic.Hollywood is the world's film center, dominating the globally largest film market, which also makes original Hollywood films cannot meet high-speed commercial operation. As a result,"Remake" becomes an important source in the produce of Hollywood film. Hollywood remake enjoys a very long history, and prefers European film as remake target in view of commonness with European culture. However, since the end of the 20th century, with the further shrink of Hollywood original capacity and continuous upgrade of Asian film status, more and more Hollywood directors in favor of a remake of an Asian film. In 2002, the American director Gore Verbinski remaked a Japanese horror film "The Ring", and made a great success, which led to a "Remake Upsurge" to remark Asian film in Hollywood.Among the Hollywood remake of Asian films, most of them stem from Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. Although similarly located in Asia, China, Japan and South Korea vary from one another as the difference in geographical and ethnic. On the other hand, all three countries regard Confucianism as the orthodox thinking culture, which makes a significant influence on the aspect of core value and humanistic spirit in Japan and South Korea, so, the core concept of Chinese Confucianism become a general moral philosophy in three countries. This general moral philosophy imposes a similarity to a certain degree, and reflecting in the film culture, the Confucianism is regarded as the core value concept. Although the similarity lying in film culture is not precondition of which Hollywood choice Asian film as remake object, the general moral philosophy would be de firstly deconstruction in this cross-culture communication procedure. Compared with the deconstruction, "American Spirit" which stands for a label of Hollywood is injected, quietly contributing a new culture reconstruction. The culture deconstruction and reconstruction emerging in cross-culture communication play a far-reaching role in Asian movie industry.From a perspective of film remake also saying from movie to movie, this paper starting with three classic remake patterns: Japanese horror film, South Korea romantic film and Hong Kong Cops & Robbers film will describe the deconstruction of both core value concept and culture form in Hollywood film remake from Asian products especially from three countries as well as the process of turning into American culture film to spread global. Then we will go through the positive and passive influence imposed by Hollywood film during the cross-culture remake procedure over national film industry in three countries mentioned above. Finally, China's policy strategy is explored under the Hollywood film's globalization.
Keywords/Search Tags:Film Remake, Film Original Version, Culture Deconstruction, Culture Reconstruction
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