Study Of The Western Detective Film

Western detective film established its stable narrative discourse, values systems and image language style from the beginning of the birth, demonstrating a unique style charm on the stage of the Genre Film. It focuses on urban crime theme, the process of the criminal cases’ investigation and ratiocination by the detective, permeating the depth profile of the dark side of society and humanity, referring and contemplating humanity and the survival situation of human, scattering strong flavor of realistic criticism.The development of western detective film has a closely related to the changes of the western social context, especially the World War I, World War II, the Postmodernism and so on, which provided an opportunity to the enrichment and development of the detective type. In addition, changes of the structure of social classes, psychological demands of the audience, advances in imaging technology and so on, also further promote the detective film to expand on multiple directions.In this social context, Western detective film go through from the classic detective film type then by the hardboiled detective film genre to the cross-type detective style.Western detective film is a typical Western hero movie, its character patterns established on the binary opposition between good and evil, detectives fight with criminals by their superhuman wisdom and courage, highlights social mainstream values of praising virtue and punishing evil. Although the female images undergo a process from absence to a certain extent of speaking rights, they still did not get rid of the control of traditional male authority, fall into a state of limited aphasia.Western detective film filled with thick suspense and mystery, with the design of narrative tricks, the architecture of dramatic situation, the setting of suspense and other techniques, building a fantasy treacherous crime scene, deconstructing mysteries of crime and evil, providing audiences with a confusing visual feast.Metaphorical imagery codes, objective information close-up and depressing gloomy cool picture texture, which complementary to its crime theme, demonstrate a unidue visual image stvle of the western detective film.