The Research On The Form And Style Of Japanese Healing Films And TV Series

With the development of UCG and USP in recent years,more and more people obtain knowledge by network and the popular Japanese healing culture in 1990 s become familiar to Chinese people.There contain a lot of healing elements in Japanese films,TV series,animes and music.The research on healing culture could date back to 1990 when the Japanese scholar Noriyuki Ueda firstly put forward the modern usage of this term in his book Awakening Network.The term healing means the spiritual network built with music,plays,literature and paintings by those who once are isolated from the local community and struggle to return.And the healing culture was widely known in 1999 when the Japanese musician Sakamoto Ryuichi released his song BTTB,which caused healing culture boom in Japan.In 2000 a Japanese publishing house published the magazine Oggi targeting at female workers,in which it referred to the concept of healing man for the very first time.The emergence of healing culture in Japan is not a coincidence but with profound historical and social reasons.In 1990 s,the economic bubble burst in Japan made the society even worse.Under such circumstance,the healing culture was considered as a way of enjoyment and relaxation to those urban Japanese people who were living under heavy social pressure.The rigid Japanese society got an opportunity to change its way of life since the godfather Sakamoto.The healing culture is more concise and soothing in form with its fragmented narration and causal linear narrative structure,it owns special features in style with its unique shots,sound system and settings;and the ubiquitous aesthetic thoughts and ritual expression skills in healing films and TV series make it different from other countries'.As the anthropologist Victor Turner argues,rituals mean a transition from one state to another.In the Japanese healing films and TV series,rituals exist both in two aspects: the form and the style.As for the form,the story begins when the protagonist is isolated by a community or a group,and ends up with the rebuilding of a new spiritual network;as for the style healing films and TV series consist of traditional Japanese elements such as Japanese shrines and courtyards.Healing films and TV series link the living environment of protagonist to traditional Japanese elements together,which try to express the unique and complicated Japanese society and form its own film genre.Based on David Bordwell's film-form and style theory,the thesis consists of four parts.The first part is a brief introduction to David Bordwell's film theories and comments and criticisms concerned to those theories.This part also analyzes following four aspects by using Bordwell's film theory: the expectation and emotion in healing films and TV series,the principles of establishing relationships among characters in healing films and TV series,the narration in healing films as a form,and the selection of unique skills in healing films.In the second part,the thesis analyzes the form system in healing films and TV series,which concludes three parts: the narrative structure principle,the narrative element,the narrator and the perspective of narration.Following is the analysis of style system in healing films and TV series in the fourth part.The main elements of style system are lens language and editing skills,sound system,character-shaping and scene-setting.Lastly,the author gives his opinions that such cultural connotations like Taoism and rituals,time and growth,memory and deformation should be covered in healing films and TV series.