A Gender Perspective Of Film Adaptation Which Based On Yan Geling’s Novels

From the beginning of the1980s,with the vigorous development of cultural consumer market and the mass media, more and more novels were adapted into films. Yan Geling who is a famous female writer has five works became movies up until now. Through the comparative studies of Yan’s novels and the adapted movies, however, we found the female consciousness which contained in the original novel have been digested in the movie of the same name.This article focuses on the adaptation which has full of gender significance, and trying to dig out the deep social reasons behind it.The part of Introduction introduces the actuality of the research of Yan Geling and why her works were adapted into films frequently, then discuss the research methods and some important academic conceptions.Chapter one is mainly to interpret the practice process of the film adaptation, which based on the adaptation production and the specific strategies of adaptation, in order to laid a broad theoretical foundation for the whole article.Chapter two focus on a gender perspective which using Feminist literary theory and Feminist film theory to examine the differences between the original novels and the adapted movies. There are two methods, the replacement feminist themes and "see" and"be seen" pattern, to explain why female consciousness which contained in the original novel have been digested in the movie of the same name.In Chapter three, through Yan Geling’s three novels,<Xiaoyu>,<Xiuxiu> and <The Flowers of War>, we are trying to do the detailed text reading including novels and the movie of the same name to arrival at a conclusion:the female consciousness which contained in the original novel have been digested in the adapted movies.Chapter four is an analysis of the causes of the main topic of this article.There are two reasons which affected the film adaptation, one is the director, including gender identity, life experiences and artistic pursuits;the other is the requirements of the market, mainly focus on the values of audiences and the investor demands. In the part of conclusion, through the example of Yan Geling’s novels adapted into films which result in the female consciousness forced disappearance, we are forced to reflect the real development status of Feminism and have to face new difficulties and challenges in the consumption period.