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Wang Film Explore And Reshape The Cultural Identity

Posted on:2013-03-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X RongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330377957200Subject:Radio and Television Arts
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As the development of economic globalization, immigration has become a global social cultural phenomenon, and a large number of people for all kinds of reasons, voluntary or forced to land across the border, to leave her ancestral home countries, wander all over the world. The children of immigrants because of a born already lost their native culture roots, into the heterogeneous culture, experience the pain of complex "cultural move into", makes them different from both the proterozoic compatriots, and moved to the indigenous peoples of different from land, be a marginal one. Long-term since, immigration culture with its unique glamour to bloom in the world culture history stage, become part of world culture history. Chinese immigrants and we have the blood and the cultural connection. The author chose to move to the Chinese film director Gordon white as the research object, with its representative works of "the joy luck club" for main case carefully text analysis, so as to explore the cultural identity of Wayne Wang.The movie "the joy luck club" was completed in1993, the company produces a Disney movie, directed by Wayne Wang. Film adapted from Chinese American writer Amy tan beautiful the popular novel, with four original to the mother and daughter marriage and love imbroglio as the main line, the performance from China’s mother and daughter born in the United States and the gap between the conflict. Gordon white of the original work and a series of rewrite, and with the movie box office and win public praise, entering the mainstream American film director ranks. From the Angle of the cultural identity of Wayne Wang "the joy luck club" was studied, and to explore the cultural identity of the movie Wayne Wang.In this paper the structure arrangement of divided into four main parts. Chinese immigrants first proposed the emergence of cultural identity crisis, points out the importance of cultural identity. The second part of the paper to Gordon white film "the joy luck club" as an example, the novel to the movie adaptation detailed analysis and comparisons, including four mother’s story changes, the daughter of four story changes, as well as text image meaning changes and the movie of the space changes. The third part, mainly from the cultural identity of the three level-national, class, and gender, makes a deep analysis of the level of Gordon white in the film cultural identity reviews and explore. The fourth part from "the joy luck club" expanded to the Gordon white other film, and then draw Gordon white film of the uncertainty of the cultural identity, points out that its free of cultural identity. Epilogue part points out, in under the impact of economic globalization, international waves of immigrants has become compelling global problem, immigrants are through a series of dislocation, misplace, collective memory loss and cultural shifts in painful process. Globalization is both the needs of The Times of the national culture of the deep implication of memory, and a sound an open mind and global cultural vision to the citizens of the world. A this ethnic culture only interested in, refused to accept foreign culture, and a our national culture, know nothing about some will only from western powerful discourse, also can’t adapt to multicultural hybrid of The Times, to keep the national culture memory and accept the sex with his multicultural both between keep the necessary tension, in accepting the western powerful theoretical discourse while keeping the necessary vigilant.
Keywords/Search Tags:immigration culture, Wayne Wang, "the joy luck club", movieadaptation, cultural identity
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