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Evolution Of Hero Theme In War Movie And TV Of China In The New Period Of The Context Of Hollywood

Posted on:2010-01-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278958624Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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War is mankind's timeless topic. Movies with real "language" scourged the crime of war at the birth of one more hundred years, as humankind's main instrument of denouncing the war and its efficacy has been far more than other art forms. The war film and TV have constituted a real challenge to imagination and expressiveness of artists. American is a big movie country, making outstanding achievements in the films of war theme, meanwhile, Hollywood war film has written a significant a passage for the United States in the world history of film. War movie and TV also plays an important role in the history of Chinese film and TV, and it is still a fertile soil of Chinese film and TV. Moreover, in recent years the war film has created thousands of teleplays about military theme and come forth a large number of very high quality productions that the audience favorite. But regrettably, Chinese war film and TV rarely have the produced outstanding works. But the difference between Chinese war film and Hollywood with the world's outstanding war presented on hero theme.Hero theme is still a hot issue of creation and comment of war film and TV. During the history of Chinese film and TV, hero created has experienced a kind of divine nature from the pure compounds after a high "distillation" of humanity to unrestricted"high-power"and"prominent politics", which resulted in the failure of showing the heroic theme in war film and TV. In 1980's, the Chinese film and TV, especially, war film and TV is impacted by the introduction of Hollywood blockbusters, and many changes have been caused in war film and TV of the new period. This paper mainly focuses on changes of heroes'topic about war films and televisions of the new era in the influence of war film and TV of Hollywood. Through the analysis of comparison to find out the commonalities and difference between the two kinds of war film and TV, reveal social and cultural roots by researching and questioning the deference, promote more profound subject changes of heroes subject in war film and TV by the way of allergenic attention and contrast .This paper includes three chief parts. The first chapter focuses on the connotation of heroic image and theme in war film and TV of Hollywood. The second chapter states the gap between Chinese war film and TV and Hollywood, and the impact of Chinese war film caused by the Hollywood. The third chapter presents the evolution of hero theme in Chinese war film and TV, which embody the weakening of the traditional drumbeating and preaching function in Chinese Television to the transformation of humanistic and aesthetic characteristics gradually. The performance of Heroes Subject is personalized, heroic subject has more rich cultural connotations to deconstruct old heroism and show a large number of personalized hero, which presents the trend of blending the Chinese and Western war cultures. Such as, there has been a thinking of metaphysical questions on War ontology, reflection on history, saving humanity as well as ego at the beginning of hero aesthetic.
Keywords/Search Tags:Hollywood, new period, war film and TV, hero theme
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