Research On Narration Of Representing Morals In Homebred Films And Teleplays

Films and teleplays have both narrative and signification functions. The narrative system can represent ethics, and set up a dynamic ethic exchanging system among authors, audiences and texts, as an implement of a meeting for ethics and significations. This article first classifies Chinese films and teleplays awards from2011to2013according to moral types, such as China Golden Rooster Awards, China Golden Eagle TV Art Awards and Flying Goddess Award and so on. And then, it selects Xinshu, Beautiful Daughter-in-Law, Caught in the Web and After Shock as main study cases based on ethic genres and representations. This article tries to find the characteristic of ethic representation from the point of narrative ethics, and concludes that films and teleplays tend to represent ethics by means of creation of negative figures, strong plot narration, and emotional narrative drive. Firstly, narrative modes, including landscape, light and music highlights some particular ethics. Specifically, montage sound and picture separation, close-up and subjective shot shape noble characters; Symbols such as mirror narratives by stealth, music can also narrate, meaning turning points. These audio visual aids can not only narrate but also represent ethics. Secondly, films and teleplays tend to focus on ethical dilemmas resulting from interpersonal conflicts. Negative core natural endowments shapes up the faces of negative figures, which is a method of dissimilation. And figures are put in extremely rare ethic space. Strong narrations push characters changes their behaviors, which results from another predicament rather than changes of moral ideas. Typically, these films and teleplays are accustomed to using emotion as drive to solve ethical dilemmas which are not thoroughgoing. The emotion dive is Chinese traditional ethics such as goodness, showing filial obedience, and characters lack rational moral judgments.In summary, these films and TV plays establish a dynamic system via authors, texts and audiences through narrations, audiences have the inter subjectivity responsibility to feedback, judge and introspect, thus fictional film ethics meeting real daily ethics. And audiences may accomplish moral acquisition and moral autonomy, which demonstrates the practical significance of these films and teleplays.