The Narrative Characteristics Of The New Generation Of Female Directors

The new generation of the female directors have taken on a plentifullymultitudinal and harmoniously different air.With Li Yu, Xu Jinglei and MaLiwen as major objects, through discussion on narrative theme, perspective,space and style, this paper aims to conclude the narrative characters oftheir works.Concerning theme, they face the double pressure from “directors of thefifth generation” and male directors of the same age which force them into arelatively awkward situation. This situation brings in two phenomena intheir works: the strong while non-radical attitude towards identification indilemma; and change-place-reflect in growth. As for perspective, the firstperson narration allows “my” subjective emotion sews up the disparitybetween the emotional evaluation of the marginal group and the mainstream one. At the same time, the recollective structure of the first personnarration sets apart narration and watching, resulting in a mirror imagerelationship in the mutual gaze of subject and the other. When deciding thenarrative space, the female directors instead of resorting to the historicalplaces pay attention to the contemporary unnamed cities. They evenchoose closed space to express citizen’s yearn for tolerance and open mindas well as narrate the multiple signifier of the city center and environ. Withthe augmentation of works and recognition degree and consideration ofmarket requirement, many female directors of the new generation havechanged their narrative style or joined in the production of the commercial film, among who there are Li Yu, Xu Jinglei and Ma Liwen. Li Yu has set upher own style tag, Xu Jinglei has revolved into the production of genremovie after the rupture of style, and Ma Liwen’s relocation of style stillwaits to be recognized. Film is the most important means to express theirown style, and they are using narration to prove the collective existence ofgroups.