The Contemporary Chinese Films And The Nation-state Identities

“The contemporary Chinese films and the nation-state identities” is a research topic offar-reaching significance. As a characterization of national history and national culture, filmsimply distinct awareness of nation-state. In term of construction of the nation-state identities,films not only can play a major constructive role, enhance sense of national pride andresponsibility, promote the traditional virtues, culture and shape the public a better quality,create a common national historical memory, spiritual traditions and cultural imagination, butalso can collapse the nation-state political and cultural identities, destroy the nation identitiesformation. So, we need to deeply explore the correlation between them and to analysis thesituation of contemporary Chinese films from the view of nation-state identities, and thenwe can get the negative reconstruction reasons of nation-state identities due to film narration,thus to seek the strategy of film culture development and establish the contemporary filmaesthetic mechanism.The thesis introduces the contemporary Chinese films and nation-state identities mainlyfrom four parts. Mainly from the general departure of the film itself and the aesthetic culture,the Introduction studies the relation between the film language, film symbol and film meaningwith the nation-state identities, and expounds the correlation between them in theory.Chapter Two mainly introduces the situation of contemporary Chinese films in the viewof nation-state identities. It is summarized from the angle of institutional identities, culturalidentities, ethnic identities in this chapter that although there is small number of negativephenomena of describing the personal desires, exaggerating the dark side of society,strengthening other images of the minority and so on, value orientation of most films iscorrect and clear, and films reflecting the common historical memories and cultural memories,common cultural spirits and efforts to construct socialism of all nations accounts for the mainpart.Combined with the background of more and more intense trend of globalization and theinfluences of domestic and international politics, economy, culture and other factors, ChapterThree expounds the negative reconstruction reasons of nation-state identities due to films indetail from the parts of popular culture, consumerism, cultural hegemony, the Westernideology and the national conditions of our country. Against the current situation that although our country’s film system is relativelycomplete, there still gets problems of personnel training lagging behind, review mechanismnot complete, producers not high-qualited, Chapter Four makes thinking arrangement andaesthetic planning under the new kind of world’s political system architecture of “TianXia”. Itexplores the methods to construct the film aesthetic mechanism according to the angle ofaesthetic culture, and, through completing the film institution mechanism, issuing mechanismand review mechanism, enhances national cohesion and solidarity, and promotes the activeconstruction of the nation-state identities and the healthy and stable development of films.