The Study On Jiang Wen’s ’Film Auther’ Identidv

As an actor, Jiang Wen has been known very well and he has a few works directed by himself. However, whether the born of In the Heat of the Sun, the banning of Devils on the Doorstep, or the unparalleled decoding boom aroused by The Sun Also Rises, the audience’s craziness for Let the Bullet Fly, each of his works gives great rise to wide concern and discussion.At first glance, Jiang Wen’s films varies from different styles, either brilliance or darkness; what’s more, the themes also have a large span from displaying selling offices and barter ranks in the warlord era to farmers and Japanese soldiers in the Anti-Japanese War, as well as the cruel stories of youth in the Cultural Revolution and the love and betrayal of middle-aged men and women. However, his works possess unique ’Jiang Wen Sign’ in literary adaptation, techniques of expression and spiritual essence.The introduction of the thesis gives a sketch of the research status, the significance and the research methods of Jiang Wen’s films, explaining the core task and theoretical framework of the thesis, then brings forward the problems need to be solved. The first Chapter starts from the themes and the heart meanings of Jiang Wen’s works, investigating his identity as a ’film author’. Among them, the biographical nature and the modernity are the key points. The second chapter begins with styles and techniques of expression, inspecting the director’s identity of ’film author’. The third chapter mainly analyzes the inheritance and development from the senior directors, with whom Jiang Wen collaborated, as well as the divergence and convergence between him and the New Age directors. Accordingly, the thesis teases the vein of the formation of Jiang Wen’s personal styles, the requirements of the shaping of the ’identity’ of film author and his unique status in the history of Chinese cinema. Finally, the paper measures the achievements Jiang Wen gained in the field of directors with the ruler of’film author’, and reaches a conclusion that Jiang Wen is an all-around’film author’.