Art Justice: The Ancient Chinese Detective Drama With Hollywood Trial Films For Comparison

This dissertation tries to probe into the realization of Artistic Justice in the Ancient Chinese Courtroom Drama and Hollywood Courtroom Films by using the method of parallel comparison to analyze certain chosen samples. The introduction explains the headline and defines the related concepts. Facilitating the data of the samples, Chapter 1 will illuminate the existence and scale of Artistic Justice in the Ancient Chinese Courtroom Drama and Hollywood Courtroom Films. And the reasons of the noted existence and difference will be elucidated from the aspects of characteristics of forms, soul demands of both the artists and the audiences and the rules of art productions. In Chapter 2, we will discuss the totally different existent conditions of the Ultimate Artistic Justice in the Ancient Chinese Courtroom Drama and Hollywood Courtroom Films. And uniting with the entirely different cultural traditions and social backgrounds, the factors causing the huge difference will be studied as well. Chapter 3 will focus on the different status that the court processes occupy between Ancient Chinese Courtroom Drama and Hollywood Courtroom Films, and the reasons making the above-mentioned differences from the dissimilarities of the law realities and the functions of trial participators in ancient China and modern United States. In Chapter 4, the artistic imaginariness and adjustment in plot-setting and character-shaping for achieving Artistic Justice in Ancient Chinese Courtroom Drama and Hollywood Courtroom Films will be contrasted and analyzed through the angle of art processing and creation.