Research On The Artistic Expression Of Jia Zhangke's Marginalized Films

From the perspective of world or Chinese film history,Jia Zhangke is a film writer with distinctive personality.His works focus on marginalized groups in social change from a civilian perspective.Also,he records the life and sufferings of marginalized groups in the process of social modernization of the the time by using objective and true shooting methods that providing a variety of films for Chinese marginalized people.More over,from the perspective of film artistic expression,this essay combines author theory and narratology related theories to conduct a comprehensive and systematic analysis of Zhangke's marginal films.By the way,it will summarize the ideological and cultural connotations of films in a broader perspective.Lastly,the article will explore the artistic charm of Zhangke's films on marginal people in terms of scope of vision and deeper levels of meanings.This article has six chapters that observe the unique artistic expression techniques of Jia Zhangke's marginal film.The first chapter comprehensively researches and summarizes the production conditions of Jia Zhangke's marginal film from three dimensions.Firstly,from the perspective of social transformation,it analyzes the foundation provided by social changes for the production of this type of films;secondly,to take the film system reform as an entry point,it analyzes the creative opportunities brought by film marketization to marginalized films;finally,to combine with the director s personal marginal experience,it explores the role of personal experience in promoting film themes.The second chapter integrates and refines the themes of Zhangke's films which explores the life philosophy behind the story,as well as the confusion,loneliness and unstable life conveyed by real situation in the society.Also,the spiritual alienation of the fringe characters caused by social changes are all presented in this chapter.Chapter Three makes a classification of the marginal characters in Zhangke's films that classify them from the level of social identity.To explore Aphasia” status in society and highlight Zhangke's humanistic care for movies with marginal people.The fourth chapter uses the method of narrative analysis to explore Zhangke's movies on marginal people which discusses from the narrative structure,narrative space and narrative time dimensions.It creatively interpret the unique cultural space of the film in the narrative space,and explore the significance of the natural landscape and cultural landscape of Shanxi Province to the narrative.The fifth chapter analyzes the audio and visual expression of Zhangke's marginal film based on the author's theory.And analyze the selection of color tones,the use of long shots,and the processing of sound in the film.These methods create new realism characteristics of Zhangke's film,which is authentic and unsophisticated”.Chapter6 begins with the perspective of the guidance of Zhangke's marginal films value that takes creative value,aesthetic value,and cultural value as the breakthrough point.Those values explore the practical significance of Zhangke's marginal film to society,and realize the sublimation of the value from surface of artistic expression to the value of social thinking.Jia Zhangke calls himself a migrant laborer of film”.His marginal life experience has prompted him to create works that point to the interests and care of marginal groups veritably.This kind of care is worth to be considered by the public.Therefore,the essay contributes to the future development of Chinese marginal film by conducts research on Jia Zhangke's marginal film works.