The Influence Of Mass Media On Contemporary Literature

As the development of modern media technique, the renews of dissemination means and the abundant of spreads category, the mass media has almost affected our lives in all aspects at all times. Along with the media development, the role position of contemporary literature has already from the consciousness method of the elite turn completely to the popular expression method. In the past, Literature has always been the Upper-class' culture, today it has enter the Visual field of common person, and the Popularization of contemporary literature absolutely can be seen as one of the evangels that the mass media brings to us. Certainly on the other hand, the close combination of literature and mass media has also leaded literature to Vulgar and Commercial etc. Especially since 90's, the literature lose its originally noble position and classic character, some pessimist even believe "the literature has already die" , and place the responsibility on the mass media as its control of cultural leadership power.The thesis elaborate "the relationship between the mass media and contemporary literature" theoretically at first, the author think in modern society mass media not only is the passage of literature's express, but also is one of important constitute part of literature, hence the contemporary literature presents some new characteristic entirely different from former literatures by all means, this is the inevitable outcome of the development of contemporary literature.Second, the thesis quote a great deal of fact and figure, combine with the present condition, and according to the medium type analysis the impact of movie and television media and the internet medium to the literature, this kind of impact not only expanded the content of the literature, but also stimulated the creation of new literature style.At last, the thesis comprehensively analysis the influence of the mass media upon the contemporary literature from both negative and positive sides, and then get the thesis' conclusion: There are some changes do taken place on contemporary literature while facing mass media, but those changes shouldn't be purely seen as literature's "compromise" or "concession" , and when we considering from the whole social system , the change exactly refracted the features of ages and social, So from this angle, the variety of the literature, should be seen as a kind of "improvement", but not been defined in brief and gruffly as "death".