The Fantasy Literature And Images Of Visual Culture

A study in visual culture was not aimed at visual or visual culture, but culture studies for visuality which questioned the visuality in postmodernism conditions and questioned the society of spectacle, made a counter—writing in postmodernism environment. It was criticized and reconstructed to'perfect crime'in the society of spectacle.After entering 20 century, modern science, painting, arts were changed rapidly, photography technique and modern media technique changed with each passing day, especially the images culture such as movie, television and so on penetrated our daily life comprehensively, It was necessity for our daily life that ecularcentrism have become all—seeing apparatus. The world was represented as images, The visual culture era are approaching.Since 1950s, The fantasy literature were popular all over the world and adopted by new electric media technique in 21 century. Spectacle movie The Lord of the Rings was the typical in fantasy genre movie, all audiences were moved by the imposing manners and grand scene by computer stunt created, simulation and simulacrum arrived perfect. Fantasy literature were adopted spectacle movie and at the same time arrived E—topia, computer game players were immerged the spectacle games which created by modern computer technique, the soul of technique were lingered cyberspace. Technique became the assistant of perfect crime for visual culture, directed the supereality of virtual reality.The dissertation was composted three parts:Introduction'Visual Culture and Fantasy Literature'mainly interpreted how new electric media technique developed and the visual culture approached inevitably, both were fused perfectly in visual culture era. Main body were composed three chapters, the first chapter"From text to images"mainly dealt with The Lord of the Rings'meanings and how popular it was, made a close reading and explored their connotations from philosophy, mythology and ecologism perspective. As the developed of media technique, The Lord of the Rings from paper text to movie, and become spectacle movie and spectacle computer game. Their were adopted cartoon, television serials and website computer which have brought many images storms in visual culture era.The second chapter'The intertext between text and images'deal with the relationship between text and images, from the relationship between language and images explored both of them the tensity and intertexity, analysis the digital technique made images increase their value, how discourse culture with visual culture gambled, explored the possibility how there are fused.The third chapter'The criticism of visual culture'pointed the real illusion lead a'perfect crime'which created the spectacle images by dominant technique, relied on the thinkers Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek's thought as sources, analysis and criticized spectacle movie and cyberspace.Conclusion'Escape from images block—Lead a free road',anticipated the renaissance of images spectacle and cyberspace ,waiting digital technology completed their poetic enchantment.