Research On The Sports Film Of China In 20^th Century

Through sports competition and audio-visual language, sports films synthetically give full play to the beauty of body of human being as well as abundant substances of sports spirit. Besides possessing aesthetic function, sports film is an effective diplomacy, through which countries exhibit spiritual outlook of their citizens to the whole world. It is significantly meaningful to analyze the development of China’s sports film, which is a reflection of spirit of Chinese, for the sake of boosting its production, creation, spread and evolution.This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter briefly illustrates current scholars’ achievements of the Chinese sports film.The second chapter gives a review of the progress of the development of the Chinese sports film since 20 th centry and a sketch of its three developing stages. In Chapter Three, the features, laying the theoretical support to the development of the Chinese sports film, will be figured out via analysing the stepping of it through events, characters, spirits and so on.In Chapter Four, the analyses of the artistic and aesthetic of the Chinese sports film will be conducted via the combination of its narrative structure, audio-visual language and representation.In the last chapter, the method of improvement of the sports films of China mainland will be discussed based on those limitations of the mainland sports films, such as rigid expression, dull narrative, above reproach theme, the lacking of business and barrenness of entertainment, digging out via the comparsion in contents, themes, styles and features of 8 films sharing the same topic of the mainland, Hongkong SAR and The Taiwan region.