The Characteristics Of Chinese New Generation Female Directors’s Film

Chinese film has experienced a century of development,batch after batch of Chinese film director create numerous classicfilms and memorable characters for us. Taking a wide review ofChinese film in recent years, a group of young director beginshouldering the important task of the development of Chinese film,especially the cenozoic director Diao Yinan’s "Black Coal, ThinIce" won the Golden Bear for the Best Film at the64th BerlinInternational Film Festival encouraged the Chinese filmmakers, aswell once again aroused the attention of the public to the newgeneration directors. In the process of previous research on newgeneration directors, the male directors, represented by JiaZhangke, Lu Chuan and Zhang Yuan, became the main object ofstudy, in contrast to the new generation of female directors, whichhad little been studied.. However, the small number of the femaledirectors with few works should not be the reason for we do notpay attention to the new generation female directors. In the male-dominated film industry, we can see that the new generation offemale directors slowly beginning to show up, their works not only win awards in the major film festivals, but also play well in box office.As a new force of Chinese cinema, the research on them seems tobe particularly urgent and important.This article will be divided into four chapters to analyze andresearch the new generation of female directors. The first chapteris the introduction, which will make a definition for new generationof female directors, as well as includes the purpose andsignificance of the research. Chinese director of inter-generationaldivide is a kind of classification method. The new generation ofdirectors refers to a group of directors, which appears later thanZhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang and other fifthgeneration of directors, with relatively different style of theirworks. New generation female directors just as its name impliesis a group of female directors. Even thoughthey are few in number,with their female perspective, unique technique, they shoot abatch of high-quality films. Through syudying such a group, thearticle hopes to show their style and draw attention of the public tothe plight of new generation female directors surviving.The second chapter mainly introduces characters in the imageworld of the new generation of female directors. Taking Zhao Wei’s"to we will eventually lost youth", Xue Xiaolu "Beijing in Seattle",and Li Yu’s "Buddha Mountain" as an example, the charactersshaped by the new generation of female directors will beintroduced and analyzed in this article.The third chapter introduces creative thought and creativemethod of the new generation female directors. They show theirdistinctions through plot settings, narrative, use of lens language, as well as their expressions for the film emotion. The fourthchapter mainly shows which path should the new generation offemale directors to follow in the business context. In the face ofthe current situation of the commercial market preferring maledirector, new generation female directors begin to try to changethe creation. The female directors, represented by Xu Jinglei, ZhaoWei, Jin Yimeng, flexibly use market mechanisms, make use ofbusiness resources integration servicing their own films, andpioneer a commercialized path with their own characteristics. Asin response to the changes in the market, the new generation offemale directors, represented by Li Yu and Xue Xiaolu, stick totheir creation of literary film, as well as hold their footing in thefilm market with the "literary commercial film". Of course, thereare also female director, such as Ma Li, turning from the authordirector to professional director, which are willing to have a try tochange their own creation style, thus exploring more possibilitiesfor female directors making movies.Conclusion part makes a summary of the image world of thenew generation female directors, explains their creationcharacteristics, creation ideas, as well as features ofcharacters-shaping, and definite their brave exploration under thepressure generated from the business competition., Moreover, theconclution also points out limitations and defects of the newgeneration of women in the process of creation, and finally putforward good will for the future development of the new generationof female directors.