Since The New Period Chinese Movie Wandering Motif Research

Wandering behavior, as one the basic forms of human existence, has obvious manifestation in the period of the social transformation. Since1980s, Chinese society has undergone great changes, and Chinese films have focused on the wanderer during the period of social reformation. In the new period in the special context wandering behavior presents a diverse and rich culture meanings, alternative culture changes, hovering between urban and rural areas, and the spiritual anxiety prevailed in the modern urban cities and so on. The motif of wandering behavior, with its close relation to the culture and its powerful expressiveness, has been often used by the film directors since the new period.This thesis adopts the method of motif analysis to research the Chinese films since the new period. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter mainly analyzes the composing elements of vagrancy motive. The second one focuses on the three comparative forms of the movies since the new period, which are respectively the one between physical wandering and wandering spirit, between active and passive wandering, and finally that between poetic wandering and reality wandering. The following chapter reveals the background information about the advent of the motive, including the cultural background, the economic and social background. The last one demonstrates the cultural implications of vagrancy motive contained in films of the new period, including individual expression of consciousness, presentation of the tragic consciousness and the transmission of human cultural.