Feng Xiaogang's Year Celebrating Films

Major:Modern Chinese LiteratureDirection:Movie LiteratureSupervisor:Prof YujiAuthor:Wei Bo (98079)One of the most persistent of directors of films on ideology of people, Feng Xiaogang has been devoted to the exploration of commercial and entertaining films, which assumes an especially great significance in the reality of a slack and depressing movie market.Starting with Feng's three New Year celebrating films, this dissertation makes an objective analysis and evaluation of his application of methods of narration, characterization and comic representation, in an effort to reveal his positive contribution to the orientation of development of Chinese film industry through his initiative probing. The introduction gives a brief account of Feng's New Year celebrating film phenomenon and his career in film production. The conclusion concludes this dissertation with the author's reflection upon China's WTO entry and comprehensive comment on Feng's New Year celebrating films. The body consists of the following three parts:The first part mainly explores and discusses Feng's films from the narrative mechanism of game principle, the ultimate reunion, the ending with returning as the main form, in addition to the choice of subjects with width and depth.The second part is devoted to an analysis of the mark, identity and value orientation of the heroes as urban vagabonds acted by Ge You, the object of desires of females acted as heroes, and the arrangement of patient members in disintegrated families, which contributes to understanding and grasping the mode of characterization in Feng's New Year celebrating films.The third part goes further to look into Feng's style of comedy as a whole in his New Year celebrating films by analyzing the common comic devices employed in his films (such as sketches, cross talks, and kuai baar), the imitation of classical films, the reverse characterization, and the speech features of characters.