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Female Image Study Of Mainland Youth Film Since The New Century

Posted on:2021-01-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X B ShiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2415330602465572Subject:Film
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In 2013,"So Young" set off the shooting boom of youth films with a box office of 700 million.Under the wave of consumerism,youth films have made rapid progress along the way and have a strong vitality.As a kind of popular culture,youth movie itself contains rich popular culture genes,and becomes a vivid landing mirror to observe the current society: on the one hand,it reflects the reality,on the other hand,it guides and instructs the modern people to construct their own thoughts and lives.But the reality is that since the new century,China has stepped into a consumerism society.The female images in the youth films are over consumed,which can not really present the true spiritual style and living picture of the female in the new era.There are many image distortions and identity dilemmas in the female images in the youth films.This paper is divided into four parts,from the following ideas for analysis and research:The introduction part introduces the research background and significance of this topic,combs the research status of this topic,and defines the basic concepts of this topic.The first chapter discusses the social representation and cultural context of the growth of youth films in the mainland in the new century.From the perspective of social representation,the emergence of new director groups,the new requirements of film industrialization and the new needs of the rise of online generation economy make the expression of youth more diversified.From the perspective of cultural context,the female image,which is out of the heavy gender stereotype,presents a landscape trend in the multiple and concurrent environment of living consumption culture,pleasure culture,mirror culture,etc.The second chapter sums up the common and classic female images in the current youth films according to the character and identity attributes of the characters,and concludes four female image modes: good girl,stubborn girl,femme fatale,good wife and mother.Through the analysis and careful reading of the typical characters in each type,the superficial meaning and role myth of the role mode are examined;The third chapter analyzes and ponders the identity dilemma and remolding in the mirror reflection of youth films.From the aspect of image,this paper points out that women are still the other to be stared at in consumption,and the subject consciousness of women's image should be established.From the aspect of value and ideology,it points out that women are still in the Hypnotism of male power,accepting the gender colonization in the name of father,and the real life dilemma of women's image should be focused.In this paper,the presentation of female images in the youth films in the mainland since the new century is regarded as a unique cultural symptom under the mass consumption culture,and the unequal gender culture in the upsurge of youth films since the new century is analyzed through the female image as a small incision.The dominant and recessive patriarchal cultural logic and female hegemony in the youth discourse are analyzed The image of gender repression and identity dilemma are analyzed and interpreted in order to make more sophisticated and classic screen works.
Keywords/Search Tags:Female image, Youth film, Identity dilemma
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