Study On Heroic Elegy—After The 1990s, American Westerns Narrative Strategies

The western films, which were born in the early stage of the world movie, have become the most influential films in the world, with the largest production, the biggest influence, the longest history and the most distinctive features. The western films have gone through the glory and quiet, always conform to the trend of the times and reflect the most typical American characteristics in the more than one hundred years of development process.The academic research on the western films mainly focuses on the early classic western films represented by Stagecoach directed by John Ford and the mature western films, such as The Red River, Noon, Shane and The Ox-Bow Incident. These classic movies have been pushed to the peak of the western films, and some specific articles such as The John Ford Western Film Studies has been appeared in China. Because of the spread of anti-hero trend, western films almost disappeared at the age of seventy or eighty, and the upsurge of research on American Western films is also gradually cooling. Since 1991 when the film Dances with Wolves directed by Kevin Michael Costner won 7 Oscar awards including the best film, and the next year when the film Can not Forgive won the Oscar best film and the best director two awards, The western films finally reproduce brilliant. The writer tries to start from this stage, with a brief description of the development of the western film as the premise, to study the development of the American Western films after 1990 s, supplemented by narrative strategy research methods. Focusing on the format and innovation, The continuation and deconstruction of the essence of American Western films in the 90’s has been refined. Studying on the subversion and transcendence, A new narrative strategy system based on the original type of American Western films has been systematically analyzed. Concluding the reference and reflection, The instructive significance and the feasibility for reference of the American Western films for China films has been researched.