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The Study Of Cultural Identity In Wayne Wang's Films

Posted on:2019-04-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X F ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330569495013Subject:Literature and art
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Era of globalization waves of immigrants to promote the development of world culture,the original culture of the region is constantly impacted by the heterogeneous culture,which makes the individual marginalized and marginalized.Wayne Wang was born in Hong Kong,where the culture was mixed by westen culture and easten culture,after he immigrated to the United Statesits,his own cultural identity became mixed,the whole analysis of Wang's own cultural identity and his films helps to find the change of his culture identity under the influence of different kinds of culture.The most fundamental reason of cultural identity transformation lies in the impact of heterogeneous culture on the original culture.As a chinese-american filmmaker,Wayne Wang had been living under heterogeneous culture environment for a long time,his own cultural identity crisis and the pursue of his own culture identity unconsciously projected into his films.Affected by his experiences of growing up,in his early films,we can often see the use of elements of Chinese culture,by showing a variety of symbols and social memories,he expresses the identification of Chinese traditional culture,through his artistic form of expression of collective unconscious,it is not hard to see that in the early stage of its creation,Chinese culture still belongs to his identity.And after analysis of the development of his works,we can find that the film "China box" is a dividing line,after this film,Wayne Wang gradually developed a westernization trend of the cultural values in the movies,it had to be attributed to the influence of his immigration to American,which leads to the change of his cultural identity,from the beginning in the edge of the status to close to the western and stay away from eastern culture,which creates his westernized culture identity.And after long-term thinking of culture,he began to actively seek a diverse and inclusive view of identity,which breaks through the imprison of single race experience,with the viewpoint of the "people of the world",he scans the cultural of the whole world,expands the area of the Chinese films creation,promotes the development of the Chinese films and even the world films.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wayne Wang, Wayne Wang's films, identity, cultural identity
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