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A Narratological Analysis Of Magic

Posted on:2014-02-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330452953910Subject:Literature and art
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First of all, this article starts with the magic wave phenomenon in worldwide,after interpreting of the phenomenon and tracing to the source of the word—magic,the article sought to give a definition to fantasy movie. Afterwards, the article startsfrom the narration of the movie, goes from the shallower to the deeper, researching onthe narrative study and characteristics of fantasy movie from plot structure, narrativetime and space and narrative elements, in order to get an overall understanding to thenarrative method like the type of fantasy movie film. And on this basis, it plays anexemplary role for the magic of film market of uneven quality of today’s film andtelevision, and it will find advantages for the development of China’s fantasy movie.To be specific, the thesis is divided into four parts:The first chapter, the interpretation of magic wave phenomenon in movies and"magic movies". The thesis mainly interprets the phenomenon from the culturebackground, era of opportunity,"" dream" transfer and concludes that as a kind ofphenomenon, the wide-spread in world of fantasy movie is not accidental. It is thewhole process from emergence to development to rush, which has more to do withour current social environment, people’s psychological mechanism and its traditionalculture. Then, we traced back to the word "magic", the definition of fantasy films wasderived step by step.The second chapter, the plot structure of fantasy movie. The thesis analyzes twolarge aspects from narrative motif, narrative mode. On narrative motif,"harry potter"lays stress on the hero motif of "heroic" growth and inner contradictions”,“the Lordof the rings” emphasizes the consciousness of "love "and" homeland " under pursuingthe motif. On the narrative,"harry potter" builds its plot structure by suspense,“theLord of the rings” stresses migration with its theme pattern, especially the analysis ofthe character model. This chapter aims to overall grasp and explore the fantasy movieplot structure by the representative analysis of the two kinds of films. The third chapter, the narrative time and space of fantasy movie. The thesismainly researches the fantasy movie narrative time from many aspects such as theskill of time, characteristics, timing, duration and treatment of frequency. And itanalyzes its overall construction characteristics of narrative space surrounding therelation treatment of fantasy and reality. As it were, the magic scheduling of spaceand time is one big characteristic of the reveal a fantasy movie narrative charm. Thetreatment makes the fantasy movie have a unique narrative charm, at the same time,in turn, it strengthens the mysterious characteristics of the fantasy movie, which is thekey part of the paper.The fourth chapter, the narrative elements of fantasy movie. The image in themovie is a kind of silent language, to some extent its exist is equivalent of thenarration language in a novel text, which plays a unique narrative role in the narrationof a film. This chapter researches professionally the narrative characteristics in thefantasy movie respectively from fantasy movie shot, color, voice, to reveal the lastingappeal of the combination of fantasy movie narrative effect and aesthetic effect by theuse of the unique narrative elements.
Keywords/Search Tags:fantasy movie, the narrative plot structure, Narrative time and space, Narrative elements
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