A Research On Genre-film Creation Of The Domestic Chick Flick

Chick flick is one of the emerging genres in the Chinese film market.Sophie's Revenge introduced this movie genre which describing the life and love of young women from Hollywood into China.Love is Not Blind,Finding Mr.Right and other box-office dark horses have made the chick film more indigenous soon afterwards,they also have brought the considerable film income.The study of this type of film helps to deconstruct the genre film better and get the inspiration in the creation.Although the chick film come from Hollywood,after the localization,the domestic chick flick already has its own typological paradigms and concepts.The main research is to summarize these characteristics,and make guiding effect of the typological creation of the domestic chick flick in the future.So the research includes the following aspects:The introductory paragraph mainly contains the background of the topic,the current research on the domestic chick flick,the purpose and significance of the research and methods of the study.The first chapter,it combs the development process of the domestic chick flick,and analyze four categories from all the domestic chicks flick,according to the subject and content.With differentiating and analysing the similar types of films,to give the domestic chick flick a more accurate definition.The second chapter,from the three aspects,the stereotyped characters,the formulaic plots and the audio-visual language,it sums up typological paradigms of the domestic chick flick.Thereinto,inspired by the symbol matrix of Algirdas Julien Greimas,there are four kinds of characteristics of different type characters in the films;there are three major actions,revenging for the love,curing and healing,pursuing the truth,the goodness and the beauty,in the the formulaic plots;the domestic chick flick basically with the same visual and auditory characteristics,such as the narrating of the chicks,the narrative space and time are the city and the current,the delicate emotion,the colorful frames,and the integration of many comic elements.The third chapter,from the surface grammars into the deep semantics,it explores the connotative typological concepts behind the typological paradigms of the domestic chick flick.It has both realism and romanticism artistic concepts,it also has other ideologies like female independence,gender equality and the anti-concept of "only love".And in the opposite of positive concepts,the domestic chick flick also show the sentimental mood under the romanticism and the tolerance and anxiety of Chinese women.The fourth chapter,to explore how to break through the development of the domestic chick flick.As a result of the industrialization of the creative model,the genre films in the development process is bound to some bottlenecks,the domestic chick flick is no exception.The domestic chick flick wants to better development requires more ways to improve itself from thoughts,themes and skills,so that the film genre will get long-term development.The conclusion part is a brief summary of the research conclusions,it also put forward some expectations for the creation and development of the domestic chick flick.