A Study On The Canonization Process Of The Movie "The White-Haired Girl"

Since its release in 1951,"The White-haired Girl" has gone through nearly 70 years of communication and acceptance,becoming one of the most influential red classics in contemporary Chinese film narrative.From word of mouth folklore to well-known screen stories,the evolution of " The White-haired Girl " has always been accompanied by the historical process of modern nation-states,and the audience's identification of national identity has been constructed in different times." The White-haired Girl " as a model of film creation of 1949-1966,it was born in the historical context of the early days of the establishment of the new regime,its actual positioning and development trend must be approved and regulated by national ideology.The shaping of literary classics by political discourse power was particularly profound during the Cultural Revolution.However,the classic nature of the red revolutionary film " The White-haired Girl " is much more than that,and its fate is inseparable from the original value of the art form itself,the aesthetic properties of the lens language,and its special status in the development history of the new Chinese film.The production of classics has its own special background,but the acceptance of classics requires a diachronic process,and they must pass the test of history before they can be gradually classified as a type.The acquisition of classic character requires the co-operation of multiple internal and external elements of literature,and merges in the history of the change of social trends and the changes of the times to compose a comprehensive,dynamic and open classicization process.Exploring the canonization of the work should not be limited to the horizontal interpretation and theoretical interpretation of the text,A detailed vertical contextual analysis is also of great academic significance for grasping its meaning.Throughout the changing times and ideological trends,the literary creation of "The White-Haired Girl" has always occupied the central position of mainstream ideological discourse.This article chooses to take the feature film "The White-haired Girl" as the starting point,from the perspective of the development of new Chinese movies,exploring the adaptation of the text in different historical contexts,and then accurately grasp the aesthetic paradigm established by " The White-haired Girl ".The classic qualities provide inspiration for contemporary Chinese film creation.This article is divided into three parts:introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction mainly elaborates the background of the topic,the research status and academic value.The text is based on the different development patterns in the classicization of" The White-haired Girl ",combined with different themes of the times,and discusses from four aspects.The first chapter discusses the adaptation of folk discourse to the folk tales of opera " The White-haired Girl " in the Yan'an literary period from the perspective of classicism;The second chapter starts with the textual narrative of "The White-haired Girl ",analyzing its originality in the artistic value of the film aesthetics,and futher connects the realistic logic and creative trend of film production during the "seventeen years" period to understand the concept laid by " The White-haired Girl ";The third chapter compares the adaptation of " The White-haired Girl" by the model dramas during the "Cultural Revolution" period,and analyzes the literary style pushed by the national ideology;The fourth chapter combines the re-examination of the classic text order since the reform and opening up,taking " The Trouble Shooters" and " The Dream Factory "as examples to explain the parody of the revolutionary classic " The White-haired Girl " in the context of popular culture consumption.The conclusion part briefly summarizes the complex meaning of classicization,and makes a rational reflection on the fate of classical literature in the current society.