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The New Historicism Film In Post-Modernism Context

Posted on:2012-02-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J H ZuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368480157Subject:Literature and art
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New historicism, was born in 1980s British and American culture and literature, the first user of the term is Stephen greenblatt, the professor of English department of Berkeley branch school in California,America.In 1982, he published in the journal of genre of the slogan "new historicism" banner, whose aim is to try to explore "literary text around social existence and literary texts of social existence". Though now new historicism is academic schools with no common theory program, a concept which haven't been recognized and still uncertain, but according to Greenblatt's narrative, as well'as other related elaboration, new historicism aims to highlight to research the mutual influenc and mutual interaction between literature and history from subject angle, and notice the connection between the literature and culture. So the new historicism has the following features:(1) Subjectivity Old historicism criticism will see history as a series of existing objective facts.history prior to literature and art and of generation.and it does not depend on subjective interpretation and exist, which is objective and inevitable, unconditional. New historicism sees history as text, denies the existence of historical objective truth, thinks of history "original face" as the product of the historical idea of self shape, the results that ideology selecting, knitting. interpretating and reshapeing the concealed unchangeable historical data.(2) "Intertextuality" and "Dialogism" it is the product of the subjective interpretation under the whole big culture vision. the subjective interpretation of discourse. Therefore, the old historicism will see history and literature and art as the "deeming", only by history to literature, but new historicism has "intertextuality" and "dialogism" Literature and historv mold and generate mutually in mutual dialogue, mutual negotiation process.they are dynamic, unstable process. (3) The Broadness New historicism probably is to study history and research history, claiming full consideration of the connection of literature and social fashion, psychological characteristics, the state institution, religious form, family organization, the power structure, the traditional practices such as cultural phenomenon between generalization for a kind of cultural criticism.New historicism, as the most important cultural phenomenon, interpretates subjective history, and meanwhile obliterate the historical objectivity, greatly harmed "judgment value" on text. Together with the introduction of western ideas in China postmodern phenomenon has took root and spread to various cultural level, new historicism film naturally show "postmodern" element:liquation depth, negative meanings, despising authority, ignoring concept, "subjective disappear," etc. New historicism film is generated from postmodernism, in order to satisfy the audience audio-visual consumption demand, using a game history and consumption historical strategy, make the time and space produced disorders,thus become the mass carnival scene.a swap of daily life. So the new historicism movies carry with the characteristics of dramatized interpretation history, consumption history.time-spatial outlook dislocation.Although the description of postmodern phenomeno is not identical, but from the most scholars' narrative we can see the common features. In <<postmodernism and consumption society>>, Jameson mentioned that postmodernism is a period of concept, its effect is to link the appearance of cultural characteristics of the new form to a new type of social life and the new economic order,Jameson generalized "postmodernism element" this kind of culture internal logic as:no sense of depth, weak shallow sense of history, etc. And similarly, British scholar Terry Eagleton said:"postmodernism is a kind of cultural style, it reflects certain aspects of the times' change by art without depth, centerless, groundless, game, simulation and compromise of socialism, pluralism and blurs the boundaries between' elegant" and "popular",between art and daily experience.Therefore, post-modern art works rejects the philosophy depth,keen on a man-made feature without depth, play and lack of emotion, a kind of art pursuiting pleasure, surface and fleeting emotional intensity;Doubt everything reliable real and certainty, take the form of irony, advocate the relativity and skeptical epistemologyWith the modern life rhythm speeding up, the aesthetic psychology of people also is changing unconsciously, paying attention to short pleasurethe and emotional satisfaction of subtle fastfood style.Most movies also subsequently advocate secularization, in order to satisfy sense enjoyment of the audience audio-visual. Because they are popular but not the vulgar, don't need profound thinking.When we appreciate such movies.we should inspect whether they will recreate historical review, let's review of the history and reality, and improving national quality reconstruction, not blindlv reflect the visual culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:New Historicism, New Historicism Film, the Post-modern Context
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