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Analysis Of Violence In The Contemporary Aesthetic Cultural Horizons

Posted on:2006-09-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:K ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360152992639Subject:Literature and art
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Violence is not always an aesthetic phenomenon, but it is an important phenomenon in the contemporary aesthetic culture. In the article, violence phenomena are studied in the field of the contemporary aesthetic culture. And the author aims at investigating the question objectively. The article is made of the following parts.In the introduction part, firstly, the author defines the two important concepts, "the contemporary aesthetic culture" and "violence". Then summarize the general situation about the question in the academia. And then tell the aim of the article.In the first part, the author discusses the question why violence phenomena can be enjoyed in contemporary culture. Firstly, discuss the necessary logic of the question, and consider contradiction as an important tie between art and violence. Secondly, discuss the springheads of the question, which are male culture, battlesome and emulative character, curiousness and seeking novelty, and dependence on the crowds. Then discuss the contemporary idea about the questioa In the end, analyze the three media, literary language, image and video, and cyberspace, which have advantages to turn violence into aesthetic things.The violence phenomenon in literature, films and teleplays and electronic games are considered as three case studies. In the second part, the author discusses the different violence phenomena and their connotation in different literary phases. In works of inquiring deeply into the culture, the ethical energy and the original life are revealed. The following literary thought is vanguard literature. Though works of such literature have the disadvantage of emphasizing the text greatly, they have more criticism about the society. From the 1990s, the distance between elegant literature and popular literature has become shorter and shorter. And the violence in literary works is taken as a means of attracting the reader and earning money. Since the end of last century, there's a trend of aesthetic daily life, and violence is not especially displayed. But the writer Mo Yan's novel, sandalwood torture was corresponded with the culture background of the time, in which violence in depicted with excellent language and aesthetic style of writing.In the third part, the author discusses violence phenomena in films and teleplays. The part is based on the description of violence phenomena. Then the author discusses the question from two aspects, the globalization background and Chinese contemporary background. In the end, discuss the complex relationship between the aesthetic perception and the form of the violence phenomenon, and the relationship between the aesthetic perception and the content of the violence phenomenon.In the forth part, the author discusses the violence phenomenon in electronic games. Electronic games are related to "play" of the western aesthetic history. Based on this, the author depicts electronic games' violence. Violence is corresponded with the electronic games, so it was displayed more in the electronic games. Then the author discusses the relationship between the violence and the temporal aesthetics. In the end, the author wants the maker and the player of electronic games bom work hard to create really aesthetic condition.In the epilogue part, the author summarizes the whole article and concludes the violence phenomena in the three main media Then tell us their sameness and difference, the value and disvalue, and complex relationship between the violence and aesthetic perception. In the end, sum up the violence phenomena objectively and look forward to a good future.
Keywords/Search Tags:the contemporary aesthetic culture, violence, aesthetics, literature, films and teleplays, electronic games
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