.1990's Disaster Film Narrative Research

Disaster film is one of the important film type of Hollywood. In the early period of Silent film, there were recording films and feature films making disaster as their themes. From the 1960s, the development of film gradually entered a new period of digital imaging. The enormous changes of Digital imaging technology ushered the disaster film in the new upsurge. The disaster scenes, such as volcano eruption, floods wreaking, hitting the iceberg, did not fear the audience, but bring great profits and high artistic achievement to the film makers. Titanic did not only win 11 Oscar Awards, but also became the world's most popular films. No other film has surpassed its record. Major companies of Hollywood are becoming interested in disaster film.Our life is full of narration. The desire to listen to stories is deep-rooted in the human race. Having such a global impact and huge market space, disaster films meet the needs of listening to stories of the audience to a certain extent. We urgently need to do the exploration and research on narrative rule of disaster film. This is the first attempt to adopt narrative theories to study disaster films, trying to grasp narrative characteristics and laws of American disaster films since the 1990s. On a basis of overall grasp of disaster films, dividing the narration into "story" and "discourse", this paper has researched the story and the word (expression) of disaster film. It has made systematic analysis on disaster films from narrative imagery, characteristics, incident, main, perspective, and space-time.