| American crime drama has always been enjoying widespread attention and fervent popularity in the whole world. The root cause of this phenomenon must be the excellent production of the camera crew and the distinctive narrative strategy. The teleplay research field of China also has turned its attention to and probed into the secret of the great success of American crime drama. Therefore, selecting an American crime drama as the object of study and make analysis on its narratology and culturology may enable us to have a better understanding of this kind of dramas from the narrative words of a single drama. In the year of2010, Tudou.com took the lead in introducing American crime drama "Criminal Minds" to China and broadcast it on the Internet exclusively, which is the first-run crime drama broadcast on the Internet in China. As a typical case,"Criminal Minds" is worth researching.This research topic is divided into four parts, which are designed to dissect the characteristics of narrative words and the culturology of "Criminal Minds". The first part overviewed the development of American crime drama and its research significance, and then probed into specific episodes to present the research significance, value and methods of analyzing "Criminal Minds". The second part analyzed the character classification, character setting and narrative function of "Criminal Minds" mainly based on theories of narratology, supplemented by script analysis method. The third part, detailed the characteristics of narrative words of "Criminal Minds" from the narrative structure, narrative plot, narrative methods etc. The concrete as follow:the perspective of multi-clue flexible narration, the suspense setting in plots, the reverse montage narrative technique and narratage as well as scenario expression. The fourth part focused on unscrambling the cultural spirits reflected from the narrative strategy of "Criminal Minds", so as to look into the global expansion of American mass culture through the teleplay. |
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