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Study On The Phenomenon Of Geling Yan's Novel Adaptation Into Film

Posted on:2021-01-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2415330626455445Subject:Theater, film and television
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With the development of economy,culture and mass media,the vigorous development of film has a profound impact on literature.In 1995,Geling Yan's first novel,a young girl's small fishing,was adapted into a movie.Since then,Geling Yan's has attracted the attention of directors with her unique literary creation techniques,Her works have been adapted into films to meet the audience one after another the other.Following the release of the flowers of war in 2011,Yimou Zhang adapted Geling Yan's novel lu criminal yanzhi into a movie again in 2014,As the third time,in 2017,Xiaogang Feng and Geling Yan worked together to create the film youth,which further expanded Geling Yan's influence.In light of the phenomenon thatthe two well-known directors Yimou Zhang and Xiaogang Feng successively chose to adapt Geling Yan's novels into films,the endogenous power that drives Geling Yan's novel to be adapted is brought up as a question of the article starts at the point of the discussion of the different adaptation strategies of different directors and the reflection on the gain and loss.Then combined with the text analysis,narrative methods for analysis to put forward the innovative point of the text and conclusion.The first chapter states the internal causes and their analysis of Geling Yan's novels adaptation.Firstly,the characteristics of film in Geling Yan's novels are analyzed by combining her life experience and Hollywood scriptwriters.Secondly,the article discusses the attraction of the glory of novels to the film market and the film market's demand of literature of high quality in combination with the background of mass culture.Lastly,this article discusses the directors' preference in the range of Yimou Zhang's coming home and Xiaogang Feng youth,self-compilation and other compilation that were adapted into the film from Geling Yan's novels.Chapter two states the text analysis of adaptation strategy under theemotion co-shock of director and writer.First,from the perspective of characterization the difference and its internal cause of the novel and the film is discussed.Secondly,from the perspective of the plot,this article discusses the addition and deletion of the plot and the integration of the director's personal style in the process of adapting the novel into the film.Lastly,from the perspective of narrative form this article discuss the adaptation of space-time transformation and the use of film and television elements.The third chapter,states the symptoms and prospects of the novel's adaptation into film.This article discusses the symptoms in a range of Geling Yan's attitude to the adaptation of novels,the shackle development in the industry of novels into films and the personal predicament of the directors,The article discuss the positive part of the adaptation process from the perspective of how the directors and the writers achieve a win-win situation and the mutual promotion between the novel and the film.Conclusion is suggested based on the phenomenon that the two directors,Yimou Zhang and Xiaogang Feng look at the writer Geling Yan at the same time for brand transformation.This phenomenon to further explore the relationship between literature and movies,Movies and novels are two different forms of literature,Adapting novels in to movie is a derivative work.The adaptation of Geling Yan's novels is not only a simple extension of her work,but also a benign interaction between novel and film.
Keywords/Search Tags:Adaptation, Geling Yan, Yimou Zhang, Xiaogang Feng
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