A Study Of Madness Images In Chinese Films Since The 1980s

Madness, as a state of intoxication in the intellectual soul of otherness and the progress of human civilization, always with the human spirit of self exploration and shaping the haunting. It exists in each of us the body, memory, in every society history and culture. Madness by the outer in the form of unique, distinctive, rich become Chinese and foreign art creators competing to portray the darling, as they provide a steady stream of inspiration and sophisticated chic expressive tools.Since the 80 s of the 20 th century, images of madness in China on the screen appeared frequently is not a coincidence, film producers consciously choose and elaborate set of artistic figures. They have the stability of the external image of the similarity and the inner mechanism, in the film text bears the important narrative and rhetorical functions. Therefore, study the image of madness will be we knowing movie version of the deep meaning, constantly improve the audience perception and appreciation force effective and unique entry point.The first chapter of this paper begins with the brief introduction of the topic of the research background, the research origin and the research value, and then to the domestic and foreign research status and literature review are summarized,reasoning,and research methods stated the innovation point of this paper.In the second chapter, first of all, combined with the western traditional culture and pathological science and psychoanalysis, and Foucault’s theory of madness concept defines it as by deranged or insane like performance, deviate from the rational or irrational in the absence of the disordered thoughts and words and deeds fantasticism. Then after 80 years of madness in the movie China image of every hue of diachronic and synchronic analysis. They had obvious difference of the image of the subject, showing a by the attention of the national ideology to the attention to the survival of the individual and by focus on character external relations to pays attention to person’s inner world, from single ideographic symbols to multilayer meaning changing characteristics.In this paper, showing how the various images of madness to explore. Madness image according to different causes, symptoms, emotions can be summarized into paranoid, feigned madness, prophet, suffering,their perfect in the images presented is inseparable from acting, costume props, sound film language symbols common description, also in the commercial and cultural level by restriction of the film system.The fourth chapter of madness image in Chinese films appear frequently and member of the Standing Committee for the task of mining, film is the creator’s artistic pursuit and aesthetic expression, is also the hedge on the strict censorship of the country.The fifth chapter discusses the images of madness in the film bear narrative,rhetoric, culture and aesthetic function. The lunatic characters as a unique narrative carrier and the narrative way and bring the Defamiliarization of narrative point of view and poetic narrative style to the film creation, narrative film more kind of creative thinking and broader performance space. cultural tradition and the real life,and appeal to the communion of true human nature and the meaning of existence, the community’s understanding and recognition the two aspects of carried on the summary to the images of madness in the film culture connotation. Finally, starting from the perspective of aesthetic value, respectively, explain the Chinese screen images of madness in different kind of absurdity of the beauty, the beauty of ugliness,Carnival beauty.