Rebellion And Regression

Chinese movie has gone through the history for a century. A century may be only a minute for traditional arts. But during this century, Chinese movie is growing from childishness to a mature stage, as well as creating marvelous scenery. In one hundred years, moviemakers of several generations have joined the team. Chinese movie has made smacking movements on this mysterious land. The sixth generation of Chinese directors, who were born in embarrassing and disadvantageous conditions, are showing a wider and wider movie space.Movie is an art, however, it's not only a kind of art but also some culture, a mass media, a special commodity and an ideology. If all these are the basic characteristics of movie, the attributions of culture and commodity are never as apparent as it is now. In China, movie industry can't be avoided and it is a necessary and certain way.Macluhan once pointed out that the contents of one media was another media. The modern mass media, which are mainly about the new media- movie, TV and Internet have great effects. As a media, movie has close relationship with communication. At the same time, movie is a mass media, which can represent the spatial characters of movie target vividly. But generally speaking, movie is researched and explained as one category of art. People ignore the character and attribution of movie as a media, the uses of movie as a communicating tool, the effects of the communicating models and the receival and feedback of the public.As a symbol of the modern culture, the sixth generation directors have quite different and unique ways compared with the fifth generation. Combining with the theories of mass media, and putting movie in the big condition of culture industry, this thesis makes general analysis and research about the early and late works of the sixth generation directors. From the growing journey of them, I find out that the directors of this generation present roughish developing veining from 'going away' to 'coming...