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Street, Street People And "Show Time": Cultural Interpretation Of Different Texts Of "Life Show"

Posted on:2010-01-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272994719Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
Abstract/Summary:
This paper takes the different art forms of "Life Show" ,such as novel,movie, television and drama, for analyze. The first part of the article uses the Jiqing Street as the starting point, analyses the different space which composed of street culture, restores the original style of ordinary life in modern Chinese cities, proves the street is the Civilians' performance stage, points out the situation that the traditional culture faces the enormous impact in the process of urbanization. The second part of the article uses the characters as the start, discusses the gender configuration in urban space, image of Lai Shuangyang who is the ordinary city residents' hero and the confliction between elite and public, in order to interpret what sort of role does street people play in social life. The third part of the article points out that "show" is one kind of characteristics of this age, reveals the object and the way of "show" and experience the poetic space of "show".
Keywords/Search Tags:Show, Life show, Urban, Street, Popular Culture
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