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The Balance Between Violence And Esthetics In Film Arts

Posted on:2008-04-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W P MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215953634Subject:Literature and art
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"Violence" and "esthetics", originally is two irrelevant words, however, recently their actually knot synthesizes a new word -"violence esthetics", and gradually evolves into a popular concept. Many film and television works, cartoon books, video games use this as attraction. Not only the related cultural phenomenon that has the close connection with "violent esthetics"has close relations with the fashion and the expense, also become the target of trial. "Violent esthetics" refers turn the violence or the bloody thing to the pure form of pleasant sensation, it mainly excavates forms impression of gun battle, the acrobatic fighting movement, slaughters or other violence scene, and develop this kind of form impression to a beautifully dazzles degree; The sometime directs intentionally use violence and bloody lens or scenes to construct stimulate the uncomfortable effect. At the beginning, this is not a strict theory terminology, but set out from the form impression. Afterward increase along with the violent movie, the development and maturity of this movie shape proposed a new quite complex topic of movie psychology, movie form esthetics, movie sociology as well as the movie anthropology.The violence is perhaps the mankind's instinct and it is one kind of easy motion, also a persistence which one kind has no way out. The violence is also a kind of expressional important art form which mankind is pleasure to display, that from performance violence to a kind of violent esthetics. The violence as a visual behavior has the incisive performance at humanity's visual media.The introduction made analysis for the emergence of the phrase "violent esthetics", point out that it is the rebel to traditional movie skill, it attempts to causes the people to make a deep level ponder through the formalism artistic skill.The main text of this article is divided three parts, the first part introduce the development of violence esthetics. It is clear about the philosophy background of violence culture development. In the period of capitalist system became consolidation and stable development in the west, grim reality arouses widely and intense disaffection in various social classes and the pessimism starts to produce. The western philosophy, esthetics which is bound by a common cause with the west real life also had the earth-shaking change. Then the movie was born such social economy, the cultural environment in 19 century's ends, and developed very quickly to the subversion to traditional esthetic that had the principle of harmony. The violence element also along with it appearance, and the violence gradually became one kind of new independence movie special esthetic shape with joint forces function of the realistic life, the philosophy, esthetics as well as the esthetic practice. The second part discussed the relation of violence and esthetics. The violence in the movie art is one kind of esthetic shape, and this mainly displays the esthetics characteristic which has at it. Firstly, pursue strong stimulation in the pictures and the audio-visual. Secondly, make the violence justice and rationalization in moral. Thirdly, eliminate violence in the pursuit of art; Fourthly, turn violence humorous and incredible. The violence has already abandoned bloody jacket through the investigation in deep and display violence by various forms, but emerge only beautiful side and concentrated on the exploration in people's spirit realm. The violence emerge its aesthetic characteristics, so as to achieve the balance between violence and beauty.Next, explained the violence esthetics in the movie performance way. Firstly, use high-tech means to movie. Secondly, the violence often appears together with sex, vulgar, drug. Thirdly, perform violence in philosophy way. Actually it's a question on the society, morals and the human nature after the surface of violence, and its purpose isn't lie in publicize violence, but try to reconsidering on violence, for the sake of anti- violence but violence. The violent esthetics extends toward the other higher stage here for the counter- violence.The third part introduces significance of violent esthetics. The source of violence is more of demand, one is demand of violence. In order to fighting for existing space, there is certain attack tendency in person's instinct, and it let mankind have the demand of violence. However, person's intrinsic aggressive tendency is constantly depressed, and can forms one kind of hope or standard in the spiritual life. Secondly, the violence is also the demand for divulges. The mission of art is discovers the deep thing in our heart which have various things including sentiment, desire, good or are ugly. The violence heals some inner impulse through touch. Moreover, we must grasp the criterion regarding the movie art in violence, on the one hand needs to more socialized and socialize violence's content in order to control it in a certain scales, on the other hand need to pay attention to the minors and keep them far away from negative impact of the violence culture .Conclusion part explains that the violence esthetics has already become more complex from the side that there is violence everywhere in the contemporary art. Social accept it already, but ultimately it was in order to cause the people carries on reconsidering of the social morals and the human nature, and found a unceasingly progresses way.All in all, this article introduced the development and the present situation of violence esthetics, also hope that more people's attention and ponder on violence, and has the positive influence in people's life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Esthetics
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