Challenges And Directions Of Military Theme TV Series In Modern Times

This Thesis is organized into five sections.Section1is based on thoughts on the military personnel itself. In present time, war has been remote from the general public. Therefore, the military is facing a very new chronological context as well as the challenges that accompanied. They need to take adjustment and reposition themselves to roles that fit in the current society.Section2discusses the challenge to image military personnel with softer heroic characteristics. Themes rooted in ordinary life in peaceful time inevitably leads to less tough images, which may be disappointing to the public as people wish to see heroes on the screen. Therefore, how to present heroic characteristics, and thereby showing the reminiscent of new age heroes, is a critical question that needs to be addressed.Section3elaborates on a common issue faced by TV series:truth. When wars past in time, would simulative combats bring viewers enough excitements? Presented here will be an example of remakes of "the Red Classics". There is no war in present time, but there is never in lack of stories of military personnel in the history of wars.Section4purposes a possible breakthrough of military themes from a historical point of view. The publics can get bored by the facts that most TV series dig back to history. To solve this problem, writers need to extend history as context, and let it blend with contemporary time. For example, war time heroes that survived the war may live in present time, and the collision of the reminiscent of the war and contemporary life will create stories.The last section will review the issues addressed in the four sections above, and reach a conclusion that, in order to overcome the challenges of peace time military theme TV series writing, one need to think outside the box and break the limitation of "themes" release themselves from specific schemes and consider "military theme TV series" merely as a framework.