Explore Vacant Narrative Discourse

In the late 1970's, Chinese film entered a new era. Owing to the awakening and displaying of the subjective sense of the creators, the films in the new era have, whether in concept of creation, means of narration, or film language, all shown a betrayal of and breakaway from traditional movies, especially many female producers produced many feminism films which reflect the female subjects, interpret the female roles, explore female activities, emphasize feminine consciousness, the producers used female narrative discourse boldly to contend with the traditional male narrative discourse. Despite many historical and practical factors made the feminism films unconsciously fall into the control of masculine discourse when they are escaping and breaking the control of it. But their efforts, after all, made female narrative discourse got the right of communication and interaction with the traditional male narrative in a certain degree. Since then, the Chinese film began with a breakthrough in leaping from the tradition to the modern, showing a brand-new historical writing.This thesis makes a theoretical and practical study on the feminism films in the new era. From the aspects of feminism and narrative, it excavates the heavy predicaments the feminism films are faced with, and outlines the achievements and shortages which appeared in the course of feminism films'fleeing from male hegemonic control by inspecting the discourse function, narrative characters and narrative styles of feminism films in the new era. In the last chapter, based on the successful experience and the defeat lesson, the thesis wi11 try to discuss how to construct a more rational and sounder female film language in film production and manufacture practice.