A Study On The Revolutionary Narrative And Cross-media Adaptation Of White Deer Plain

White Deer Plain is a classic re-telling of revolutionary history in the post-revolutionary era.It constructs history on the one hand,and deconstructs and even plays it on the other,both related to and significantly different from the classic revolutionary narrative.Since its publication,the novel has been adapted into various media of the same name.All of these works are closely related to the revolutionary narrative,yet each has its own characteristics,and together they create a revolutionary narrative landscape in which the novel is the core and multiple media forms complement and dialogue with each other,and also provide valuable experience for the exploration of the pluralistic revolutionary narrative in the post-revolutionary era.Based on the usual realism of classic revolutionary historical narratives,the novel White Deer Plain appropriately adds a modernist and folkloric perspective,which not only regroups the characters’ relationships,but also makes the sense of individuality more visible.Compared with the traditional one,it also pays more attention to the presentation of the cultural dimension,no longer letting history float on the surface,but trying to highlight the reflective meaning and cultural value of revolutionary history itself,thus completing the reconstruction of the classic revolutionary narrative from the perspective of the new pursuit of modernity.The play White Deer Plain,on the one hand,takes advantage of the medium and aesthetic qualities of stage art to enhance the dramatic conflict in the revolutionary narrative,but on the other hand,the introductory historical presentation on the stage leads to a certain degree of hollowing out of the revolutionary historical narrative.The highlighting of the rebellious consciousness and political orientation of the later generation characters is in line with both the ideological requirements under the new historical conditions and the aesthetic expectations of the specific audience of stage art.The film and television White Deer Plain brings the medium of audiovisual synthesis to its fullest extent,presenting the cultural scene where the revolutionary history took place more vividly and visually through the use of film montage and symbolic techniques.The difference in capacity between the film and the TV series also creates two different but complementary historical landscapes of the revolution: the revolutionary narrative in the film focuses more on the expression of individual desires and social symptoms,while the TV series focuses more on the manifestation of Guanzhong culture and narrative ethics.The transformation and change of the revolutionary narrative of White Deer Plain in different media is not only the result of the influence and effect of various media traits,but also reflects the aesthetic pursuit of diversified and differentiated revolutionary narratives under new historical conditions.The multiple cultural horizons of the novel White Deer Plain provide a new starting point for the re-narration of more than half a century of Chinese revolutionary history;the dramatic conflicts presented in the play White Deer Plain provide a path to stage the complex relationship between revolution and patriarchal culture;the film and television version of White Deer Plain,with its perfect synthesis of audio and visual,reproduces the audience’s entire imagination of patriarchal tradition and revolutionary history.This revolutionary narrative of The White Deer Plain and its cross-media adaptation constitute,to a certain extent,a typical sample of revolutionary historical narratives in the post-revolutionary era.