American Artists’ Biography Films Study In The 21st Century

As a high-profile and popular film genre,biography movies were very glorious in the history and developed rapidly in contemporary era.Especially under the cultural background of western movies which pay attention to the reality,American biography films has a amount of breakthrough and a qualitative leap in recent years.As an important branch of biography movies,artists’ biography films has inherited the documentary of biography films,at the same time,it also has the unique artistic charm.As a biography movie superpower,America has a large number of biography films since the 21 st century.From 2000 to 2016,the quantity of the biography movies are more than 80,among them,over 20 movies have received the international award.And at the same period,the quantity of the artists’ biography movies are very considerable,the quality of them are very superior.After entering into the 21 st century,American artists’ biography films have presented the abundant performing form and art form.As for the creative train of thought,it never pursuits the bo-stunt by fiction.It insists to base on the facts,and put the artists into the real historical and cultural background to rebuild them.Meanwhile,when creators of the biography films present the idealism of heroines as well as the ups and downs of lives,the creating techniques are much more mature and the choices of the subject matters are more diversified.This article is divided into 5 parts to study the American artists’ biography films of the 21 st century.The first chapter is introduction.First of all,it expounds the background and significance of the subject,and mainly expounds why we choose the American artists’ biography films of the 21 st century as the subject of the study.Secondly,it defines the concepts of “artists” and “biography films”.At last,it briefly analyzes the mainly studying direction and the existing vacancies of the biography films during the process of studying.The chapter 2 focuses on the aesthetic characteristics of the artists’ biography films.First of all,it expounds that the artists’ biography films need to represent the real history and figures in the view of documentary aesthetic.Secondly,the aspects of artistic performance show that the artists biography films should represent theirsartistry when choosing the heroines,contents and handling the audio-visual art.At last,internalization or psychologization is the important characteristic during the development of the modern biography films.The chapter 3,4 and 5 have carried on the concrete analysis of the 21 st century American artists’ biography films.From the aspects of choosing the heroines,subject matters,narrative strategies and audio-visual language,these chapters have fully analyze and deeply excavate the creative rules and artistic characteristics of the American artists’ biography films of this period.By summarizing the merits of American artists’ biography films of this period,it can reflect the deficiencies and dilemma of Chinese artists’ biography films and Chinese biography films.We wish the Chinese biography films have a better art level and develops better.