Chinese Black Humor Film Research From The Perspective Of Existentialism

As an artistic style,black humor is widely used in literary creation and film creation.The mature film production system in the West has already completed the style exploration of black humor movies.While learning the successful experience of foreign countries,Chinese black humor movies have also actively explored and broadened the black humor from the aspects of creation theme,artistic expression and cultural connotation.The connotation and extension of the film form a comedy style with unique national characteristics.The spiritual core of black humor movies,the philosophical thinking about existence always coincides with the current trend of economic transformation,social transformation,and cultural development,all of which together affect and affect the maturity and progress of Chinese black humor movies.The existentialism in Chinese black humor movies pays attention to the alienation,loneliness,anxiety,despair,indifference,self-deception,alienation,existence and emptiness in social life,and express it in an artistic way.This article intends to study the philosophical details of Chinese black humor movies in combination with specific films.The paper is divided into the following parts:The introduction part first clears the research object.This paper intends to select four famous directors from the mainland,Taiwan,Hong Kong,and overseas Chinese who have typical existential styles,and analyze the existence thoughts contained in their specific black humor movies.Then introduce the research status of this topic at home and abroad,and clarify the method and significance of the research of this topic.The first chapter studies the origins of black humor movies and existentialism.This chapter begins with a brief review of the historical origins between black humor movies and black humor literature,and understands the similarities and differences of the theoretical connotations of "black humor" in their respective contexts.Then it sorts out the theoretical origins of existentialism and clarifies the historical contributions of various theories such as Soren Kierkegaard,Nietzsche and Husserl to the formation of existentialism.Finally,from the diachronic point of view,theinfluence of existentialism such as mysticism,volitionalism and phenomenology on the rise of black humor.The second chapter studies the existential background of Chinese black humor movies.This chapter first reviews the history of the development of black humor movies in China.Secondly,it discusses the influence of western black humor movies on Chinese movies of the same type,and analyzes the historical links between the two in terms of theme style and shooting techniques.Finally,we will discuss the black humor movie stories in China from the perspective of black humor movies to reveal the absurdity of life.The third chapter studies the existential theme in Chinese black humor movies.This chapter specifically discusses the existentialist themes of Chinese black humor movies: nausea and absurdity,loneliness and anxiety,despair and indifference,self-deception and alienation,existence and nothingness in Chinese black humor.The embodiment of the film.The fourth chapter studies the comparison of the existential styles of Chinese and Western black humor movies.This chapter shows the comparison between existentialism and Chinese movies of the same type in western black humor movies from the aspects of mirror language,sound and expression.The last part of the thesis analyzes and predicts the future development trend of Chinese black humor movies in the context of post-existentialism formed by the post-modernism thoughts such as Bazin theory and French surrealism theory.