Research On Jiang Wen’s Films Under The Perspective Of Aesthetic Modernity

Among all the directors of China, Jiangwen is the most "Fei Qi"(temperament of bandits) and spiritual one Contemporary. In the modern way of thinking of the whole system of care and value, he combines subjective experience with art insights, he focus on individual feelings of human beings. He concerns political and social environment under special historical background with human care. He pursues spirit with high degree of freedom and its meaningful, the work itself and the director himself embodies a high degree of self-conscious. It reflects a director of self-conscious who tries to resist "consumption" and "market" which dominated by "Popular Culture" environment in modern China. which also deeply revealed that art in China is now suffering the attack of globalization,especially in the art of film,which can be due to the contradiction between aesthetic modernity and enlightenment modernity.By using methods of Prototype analysis,Structure analysis and Interpretation analysis,this paper tries to analysis Jiang’s film in the sight of modernity, which include narrative, image, audio-visual language.One basic conclusions of this article is that Jiang’s spirit is deeply rooted in the frame of modernity, it embodies as an aesthetic spirit with rational confrontation. This spirit has two connotations,first of all,one person is the subject of social life, with subjectivity. Secondly, the development of rationality causes excessive of human spirit, art condemn rational reality, and redeem the spirit of mankind. Through the confrontation of daily life and rational spirit, people find the meaning of existence.This paper is divided into two parts, in the first part, we focus on the interpretation of modernity, and its inter-relations with Jiang’s films, and analysis its rationality under the background of cultural environment of the 1980 s. Based on this logical explanation, in the second part, the author tries to analysis Jiang movies from three parts.narrative, image and audio-visual language. And it finally extract the basic connotation of the film. It reflects a critical reality against the trivialization, and put forward two concept of "absurd" and "sublime" which shows the spirit level difference logically. This paper argues that these values are categorized as aesthetic connotation of the essence of modernity, thus in turn demonstrates the theme. Derivation explain its contradictory causes, the system can explain the problems in the real situation Jiangwen suffered from aesthetic modernity "internal." The aesthetic criticism against the daily, the establishment of the spirit level, a distinct value of life,the romantic way of express, and many other qualities of the spirit are all among Jiang’s film, and in turn, from the "internal" reason of aesthetic modernity,we can explain the interpretation problems he encountered in the reality.