Research On Audio And Visual Arts Of "Liaozhai"

Strange Tales from a Scholar’s Studio’ is one of the highest peaks in Chineseancient literature and has been highly praised by writers. The stories in the book wereadapted into various art forms and were tremendously popular among readers. Thisarticle studied on audiovisual adaption form, the most influential one. The writer statedthe possibility and necessarily of the book’s audiovisual adaption, summarized the casesof the book’s audiovisual adaption works’ performance and research situation. Thearticle emphasized on analyzing the two most important adaption work pieces of thebook: Qing dynasty opera and contemporary movie and TV drama. Studies of these twoworks also include the reason why they draw the most attractions.‘Strange Tales from aScholar’s Studio’ s characteristics of fantasy and mystery match the advantages ofaudiovisual art. Readers are still touched by the precious thoughts and opinions ofSongling Pu, the writer of the book.This article also analyzed on the features of Qing’soperas and movie dramas adaption products based on several most representative workssuch as ‘The Yanzhi’s shoe’ and ‘A Chinese ghost story’. These works all selected thelonger educational love story in ‘Strange Tales from a Scholar’s Studio’. This kind ofcontents has been proved to be popular in both opera and movie TV dramas. In thefourth chapter, the writer raveled out adaption works characteristics and providedsuggestions on future adaption products. The writer pointed out that the key is restoringand remodeling the characters. Actors’ lines would be highlights while adaptingliterature works into performance art from.