| As an important product of the mass media, the study of movie has always been favored. In one hundred and may be more years, the movie has become a means of communication which is founded by light and pictures. The Adventure movie, as this essay mentioned, is an immortal theme of all kinds of movies. Also, the hero figure is an essential constituent part of this Adventure movie.This essay meanly uses the presentation cultural theories of Stuart Hall. By analyzing some important parts of the adventure movies, this essay aims to conclude some features of postmodern movies. Besides, the research technique of this essay is Text analysis, which is the most common research method of cultural studies. It emphasizes the study should start from the surface layer to the inner parts, then make the readers have the opportunity to learn the underlying meanings of the text. In the world of postmodernism, everything is possible, which provide the movie texts unprecedented vitality. And this makes up more and more vivid material to the cultural studies.First of all, the movie is made a presentation to study its meaning and communication. The Postmodernism and the styles of movie are interactional. The disruptive effect lies in the denial of metanarrative, which is the representation of Modernism. At the same time, the movie has become a cultural product, as the mass media develops. The second part analyses the characters of the movies of Postmodernism. These kinds of movies display an adventurous experimental skill and fashion-forward feature, including material selecting, theme, shooting method, and post production. The movies of Postmodernism shows three clear characters: the counteracts of the heroism; the narration of the Carnivalism; the infinite space for interpretation. The third part analyses some key issues of the adventure movies, including violence, conflicts, Orderliness, duality, responsibility, and the regression, to compare these same key issues which are common in the movies of Modernism, and to summarize the characters of the Hero Figure modifying and the adventure movies.By the study of this essay, we can find it true that the postmodern cultural trend of thought is international, which use those skeptical theory and rebellious spirit to whip up a round of subversive influences in cultural theories study. What is more, these subversive influences exceed to people's daily life. On the other hand, as a representative product of the mass media nowadays, the movie is inevitably affected by these cultural theories, which provides itself a brand new vitality and development prospects. In this cultural tide, Chinese native movie makers never stop their fearless exploration, and they finally make their own way in the kingdom of cinema. |
