A Study On The Film Of European And American Prison Since 1990 's

Prison film, as a special type of existence, has developed for a hundred year of history. Particularly, when entering into the 1990s, the creative works of prison films reached to a peak period. The smoke of wars gradually began to clear and the political situations of the world stayed relatively stable since the 1990s. The Europeans and Americans consequentially moved to focus on their own domestic problems. Because of high frequency of domestic judicial scandal in these countries, the backgrounds of prison films slowly turned to the present society rather than the Second World War. Furthermore, the type of such films transformed from the branch of the war to the branch of the crime. The causes of the protagonists in prison were no longer captured in the war but their own crimes. Moreover, narrative parts of prison film focused on all-round prison lives rather than ideological description of war stories.The European and American prison films were deeply analysed in this paper. Here are four chapters in this thesis. First of all, in order to show the core contents of prison films, different expressed themes of such films were generalized and summarized. And then, it introduced three parts of prison films, including narrative character, narrative space and narrative plot. In particular, the narrative constructions of prison films were introduced in detail and common points were found among narrative points.In the following, through comprehending vision language of prison films, it may help to analyse the composition of unique cineframes and applications of the shots.Finally, to discover the more sacred sense of prison films, the relative judicial, humanistic and social problems of prison films were all-sided unscrambled.