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A Comparative Study On The Remakes Of Heaven Sword And Dragon Sabre In Mainland China

Posted on:2021-02-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2415330623473819Subject:Theater, film and television
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Martial arts movies and TV plays are unique artistic types in China.Martial arts dramas experienced a boom period and are now gradually declining.The root cause is not only the decline of martial arts novels,but also the transformation of media society.This article will take three mainland works adapted from Jin Yong's novel Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber as examples to compare their different narrative methods,analyze the production context behind them from the perspectives of media structure,audience change,technology and production system,and discuss what kind of production context influences the remake text narrative method.The introduction of this article starts from the background of the decline of the classic martial arts,combs the research on the audience and aesthetics of martial arts dramas,establishes the research objectives and explores the connection between the narrative modes of the remakes and their production context through comparative analysis and other methods.This article is divided into three chapters to analyze the mainland remakes of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber and their production context.The first chapter is divided into four parts.First,it discusses that the 2003 edition of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber has created the characteristics of idolatry by means of idolatry and realistic images.The second is to discuss its romantic adaptation in the aspects of character setting,contradictions and conflicts from a narrative perspective.The third is to discuss its conception of dispelling noble family and country from the perspective of concept,enlarging the theme of love and making the meaning superficial.The fourth is to discuss the production context behind it.From the basic situation of China's media structure in 2003,that is,the general situation of the media structure of TV as the first media from the low tide of movies and the initial development of the network and from the analysis of audience composition,media characteristics and production system,the influence of TV on the idol romantic style of 2003 Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is discussed.The second chapter is divided into four parts.The first is to discuss the complicated and differentiated characters and majestic audio-visual images of the 2009 edition of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber from the perspective of image.The second is to discuss from the narrative angle that it embodies grand narrative through narrative time and space,opening,discovery,climax and other settings.The third is to discuss its outstanding historical temperament and family and country feelings from the perspective of concept.The fourth is to discuss the production context behind it,starting from the change of China's media structure in 2009,that is,the change of TV's first media status under the background of the rise of film and network,and to analyze its influence on the grand and heavy style of relying on heaven in 2009 from the aspects of audience change,digital technology and industrialization,that is,the change of TV audience and digital technology make TV drama creation towards grand and heavy,the gradual improvement of industrial system makes TV drama production more exquisite.The third chapter is divided into four parts.The first is to discuss the young age and flattening of the characters in 2019 version of the online drama Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber from the image point of view and the extraordinary display of audio-visual images.The second is to discuss its adaptation of the net generation through strengthening emotional details from the narrative perspective.Third,from the perspective of concept,it discusses its discussion of the struggle for power and the thought of being born,its strengthening of personal growth and modern consciousness.The fourth is to discuss the production context behind it.Starting from the transformation of China's media structure in 2019,that is,the transformation of television facing difficult transformation under the background of the prosperity of film and network,the influence of the changes in audience,mobile media technology and industrial reform on the 2019 edition of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber style is analyzed,that is,the audience of online drama and mobile media technology make its style tend to network sense.Under the industrial reform,the influx of Internet capital changes the film and television creation pattern.
Keywords/Search Tags:Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, narrative method, swordsman drama, the remake
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