Some Explorations About The Narratology In "Running Man"

As early as in the beginning of 21 st century, reality show on TV had been introd uced into China. In 2005, the program "Super Girl" ignited the audience’s enthusiasm for reality show, so that in the following ten years or even longer, reality television sh ow has been popular in the prime-time of some major star-TVs in China. For instance,from South Korea, Zhejiang TV introduced the program "Running Man" and localize d it to be “Running Man(China)”, which stands out in the fierce market and once eve n resulted in an amazing nationwide torrent of TV audiences.This article is divided into six chapters. Chapter one has analyzed the multiple na rrative context of the program "Running Man”(China) and explored the influence of media culture, consumer culture and the entertainment-oriented television show on the program itself, the public and the TV industry itself. Chapter two dissects the diversit y of the narrative subject in “Running Man”(China) and the multilevel of the subject t o accept and has concluded the difference between outdoor reality show team and the traditional variety show team. The third chapter expounds the narrative structure of " R unning Man”(China)and focused on analysis of the relationship between topics and ev ents. Events include core events and catalytic events and core events serves as the bac kbone of narrative works whereas catalytic event make the narrative works by means of vivid and wonderful details to be presented. Chapter four concentrates on parsing t he narrative discourse of “Running Man”(China). The narrative perspective of the pro gram covers exterior focusing perspective and multiple internal focalization perspecti ves. Picture language, voice-over and subtitles language are indispensable to each oth er. Chapter five interpretes the narrative strategy of “Running Man”(China) and emp hasis is put on arrangement of suspenses and conflicts in the program to improve sple ndidness of narrative program. Chapter six mentions some issues of “Running Man”(China) on its way forward, such as the strongpublicity sense of the stars and weak loc al cultural inheritance, etc. In view of these weaknesses, this paper has proposed certai n solutions.