The Ruins Aesthetics Of Italy New Realism Movies

On the forty’s of the20thcentury, the New Realism Movement of Italy moviesdelivered many masterpieces which reflected the reality of the society. This papertakes the ruins aesthetics perspective, starting from the connotation, background andthe characteristics of the ruins aesthetics, trying to mine the ruins aesthetics reflectedin the Italy new realism movies.The virtual ruins in the movies were described from the broken walls whichcould be seen everywhere and the mechanization, merciless industrialized society.The deeper ruins of souls were reflected through the feelings of despair and lonelinesswhen people were faced with hunger and unemployment, and the spiritual emptinessand confusion people dropped in when the society get into the normal operation.Through the discussion of the meaning of the image of “ruins” in the Italy newrealism movies, this paper conducted a combing of the Italy new realism movie fromthe perspective of aesthetics, made the methods of showing people the true world withcracked images and souls clear, and show people the redeemed will of movie makerswhich was hidden in the debrisThe first chapter of the thesis outlined the concept of ruins aesthetics by givingthe meaning and the base of the word and expounds the connotation of ruinsaesthetics from the angle of theory. The second chapter introduces the development ofthe Italy new realism movies. The third chapter interprets the ruins aesthetics reflectedin the movies form two aspects of material and spiritual. The forth chapter discussesthe value of ruins aesthetics. Finally, the paper analyses the influence that Italy newrealism movies made on the Chinese ones and the inheritance and evolution of ruinsaesthetics in China, trying to provide new ideas and vision to Chinese movie makerswho were focused on Italy new realism movies and committed to the development ofmovies with the feeling of realism in China.