In Contemporary Chinese Movie Image Of Intellectuals Transmutation

This paper first elucidates the related concepts of the intellectuals, upon the definition of intellectuals to make sure this paper studying on intellectual who believes in humanity. And then the paper briefly summarizes the spiritual development of the intellectual images in Chinese films in the New Period (the era of reform and opening-up:from 1979 to now). Next, this paper explores the changing reasons in the political, economical and cultural viewpoint: the intellectual engagements with politics is fading away while facing the tremendous economic striking and strong collision of reinventing cultural development. Under the together action of social changes and new ideology, the paper summarizes the trajectory of the evolution of the intellectual image in Chinese films what is its course and contents. This trajectory is the deformation processes from the returning of the social morality into the psychical fragmenting further to vanishing of the intellectual identity,.It shows the magic power of the cultural alternation in a changing era. Then, it focuses on the actual presentation of the changing intellectual images presented in Chinese films since the New Period. The constant re-writing of the changing codes from "commitment" "villainousness" to "the populace". Finally, the paper presents further argumentation on the evolution of the intellectual image in Chinese films since Chinese New Period, taking changes as point of penetration, in the view point of social, cultural and aesthetical values.