A Study On The Adaptation Of Journey To The West As Movie Or Teleplay

The academic history of Journey to the West is more than400year. The researching mainly concentrated on the origin, author, version and text comprehension, etc. With the emergence of movie and TV, the adaptation works of Journey to the West as movie or teleplay are more and more, nearly90years. Classic literature can provide various connation to movies and teleplays. Movies and teleplays can take more readers to read the Classic literature and expand the range of humanities education. We must confess that classic literature can be adapted to movies and teleplays. Similarly, this adaptation is also a’double-edged sword’. It can deconstruct the classic literature. This piece of history reflects the history of evolutionary of adaptation and literature interactive with movie and teleplay, also cultural. Concerning the fate and current situation of classic literature is an important topic. Combing the history of adaptation of Journey to the West as movie or teleplay, reflecting and research it is urgent and necessary.During the90years, the Journey to the West was adapted again and again. In the future, it will be adapted constantly. Almost each historical stage, the novel can appear in new forms during the evolution of the mass media. Exploring the reasons about this need integrate characteristics of media development, times and research the text. This article tries to make an overall observation of86years adaption of Journey to the West in historic and synchronic method. Based on this, I try to comprehensive the history of movie and teleplay, analyze cultural reasons from various types of adapted works, uncover the relationship of mutual influence between classic literature and the social and establish a deeper understand of various adaption works of Journey to the West. My ultimate purpose is to establish an objective manner of classic literary and its various adaption works.