A Research Of The Adaptation Of Jouney To The West As Movie And Telepaly

The masterpiece Journey to the West has been enjoying splendid acceptance history for a long time, the adaptation from this masterpiece into movie and TV works have long history as well. The adaptation research becomes the focus of attention once again due to abundant adaptation works from Journey to the West. We can divide the adaptation works into three types which roughly correspond to three ages according to the leading factor of works.This thesis profoundly analyses the procedure of text formation by using the theory of semiotics. On the surface, it is appears more and more wide the paradigmatic background used by the adaptation works and so does the style of works. However, the adaptation works born in the tide of commercial film are full with pseudo-paradigmatic relation background. Most works in recent years are entertainment ones which devoted themselves to realize amusement.For these works, close reading is less useful,, the para-text of works carry the more symptom meaning than text itself. Hence, the thesis could find the strategy of production of works. The tide of Journey to the West is not only appear in contemporary era, colorful adaptation of this masterpiece exists all the time, it shoulder the mission of national culture output, and adaptation to movie and teleplay has prominent advantage during this procedure.Consequently,the thesis will analyze the possibility power of this masterpiece with overseas successful culture output as reference.