A Study On The Image Of Monk From The Perspective Of "Cultural Hero" To "Cultural Clown" In Cross - Media Context

Because the Monkey King is the focus of the media at home and abroad.The presence of tang’s monk were being ignored, Even defacing his image. Tang’s monk prototype was the famous buddhist in the history of- Master XuanZang. Master Xuanzangmake a great contribution to buddhist culture and communication immeasurable contribution for China and India.Tang’sMonk’s story adapted for their work by many authors. In these stories,Tang’s Monk from a hero becomes a clown.The author thinks that the reason of Tang’s Monk’s change because cultural logic and the mass aesthetic changes. This paper used literature method and case analysis method. It is divided into five chapters. Firstly, Tang’s Monk is introduced in the print, film, television, and stage art image performance;The second chapter discusses the various types of media image means to Tang’s monk; Thirdly,the chapter probes into the reasons of tang’s monk image changingfrom the perspective of media culture logic;Thefourth chapter, the author deeply analyzes the reasons of Tang’s Monk image uglification; The last part is summarized to the lack of image creation to Tang’s Monk.