On The Space Aesthetics Of British Director Joe White 's Film Works

Spatial turn is one of the revolutions of the western ethos in20centuries. Spatial theory has gained a foothold in critical theory of the article, painting, drama, architecture area since the20th century, especially in the analysis the modern industry city view, which stems from the particular structure of Space-time in20th century and the context of reality from the experience of Sensibility.Movies, which are considered as the "seventh art", have a more complicated and deeper connection with the space. The organizations and settings of the space in movies are results of the ideas、 experience、plans、senses of the creator in a certain social environment.The primary object of study is the5movies of British director J.W (Since the "Pride and Prejudice" in2005). The main purpose of this paper, on one hand is to decode the space frame and the deeper structure while the taste of audience is becoming visualized and odd. One the other hand, as a British director who can both have an art blood and enjoy the public preference, even though J.W doesn’t have a full flush of success in Hollywood, but he enjoys his reputation of his distinctions anyway. His acts on his way winning the Academy Award deserve a attention of the Mandarin filmmakers who is eager to step into the bigger world.His first film "Pride and Prejudice"brought him the most promising newcomer award from BAFTA and4Academy Award nominations (including best actress) in2006. On13December2007,"Atonement", his2nd film was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, which made him the youngest director in history who can achieve that. His movies roughly reflect these peculiarities:artistic but mainstreamed.The five movies of Joe Wright has their own characteristics in the aesthetics of space but also share some points in common at the mean time. This paper has written about its physical attribution and psychological dimension in aesthetics of space, by using the theory of the "Third Space"to analyze the openness and diversity which is obviously to find in J.W’s movies, which showed the scene with sort of significance of sense and the meaning of philosophy. Besides, as a complement of visual space, the background music and the poster has extraordinarily enriched the character and information of the J.W’s movies.After all, it concludes the unique experience of artistic creation about J.W and the edification for the developing mandarin movie.