The Narration Of Contemporary American Horror Film

As one of the traditional category film, along with social changes, the contemporary American horror film is depicting postmodern characteristic different from the past and outstanding displaying in film narration. This paper, through study of narrative background, narrative connotation, narrative method and narrative function, mainly explain that the contemporary American horror film more and more break free from tradition and combine a mere illusion with horror realistic daily life on the basic of assimilating relevant element of classical works. It is trying hard to establish one postmodern narrative pattern. This new narrative pattern affords us useful lessons for exploring development of American horror film and China film.