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Four Thoeries Of Chivalrous Woman In Screen-Concerning The Chivalrous Woman’s Figure In The Swordsman Film

Posted on:2013-09-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L G LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330362464148Subject:Radio and Television Arts
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The chivalrous woman’s figure keep long historical origin in the swordsmanfilm.According to the current data,it shows that the earlist chivalrous woman could betraced back to"The Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue"in which had been referred to theswordm-vingin Yue in the Han Dynasty,while the concept of"Chivalrous Woman"montionedin the first was in the work"Chivalrous Woman"written by Hongmai in the Southern SongDynasty;Chivalrous woman and her figure in Chinese literary history had been in fulldevelopment of Wei Jin and Six,Tang,Song,Yuan,Ming,Qing Dynatsy and Recent-ModernTimes,took root in Chinese swordsman film in1920s.And with the mature development ofthe swordsman film,the chivalrous woman’s figure has prospered and emerged a number ofhigh strength and chivalric classic ones;These chivalrous women’s images have their ownlaw of development:They are from showing real skill and avoiding emotion in thetraditional swordsman film to performing"unique martial skill"rely on movie stune andrendering emotion intentionally in the contemporary one;At the same time,they have thetypical characteristics of revenging father,putting the righteous to important,high strength ofmartial and against oppression in courage,these characteristics build a unique and beautifulwomen heros’scenery for Chinese swordsman film;The vast chivalrous women’s figures ofswordsman films imply a unique and profound significance of gender,she transcends thegender norms required for women in the general sense of society,and,to some extent,breaksthrough the weak images of women who were considered as dominated objects.Thisinterferes the narrative unequal order about gender in Chinese swordsman film,but as LeonHunt-the western chivalrous woman’s researcher say:the chivalrous women in Chineseswordsman films are"deadly Chinese doll"-both deadly and vulnerable,they never transcendthe narrative male centrism of the swordsman film,Jia Leilei-reseacher on swordsman filmin our country say:the more they go through fire and water,risk their own life for a certainvalue that contains gender-characteristic,their behaviors and fates are more tragic,the menand women in the swordsman films continue the unequal relationships of gender in the realistic society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Swordsman Film, Figure, Characteristic, Chivalrous Woman, Gender
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