Cultural Memory And Identity In Singapore Chinese Film Since The Beginning Of The New Century

The creation of Chinese films in Singapore is an important force that can not be ignored in the development of Chinese films.Since the new century,Singapore Chinese films have shown a diversified creative pattern in type,highlighted the living state and emotional changes of overseas Chinese in content,and presented the construction and changes of Singapore Chinese cultural memory and identity,which has unique cultural significance and value.This paper takes Singapore Chinese films since the new century as the research object,takes the cultural memory and identity in Singapore Chinese films since the new century as the task,from the perspective of the combination of film criticism research and cultural research,uses relevant film texts and literature materials,and adopts research methods such as text research,case study and comparative research,From the perspective of film culture,this paper discusses the cultural memory,identity and diverse creation of Chinese films in Singapore since the new century.The introduction part expounds the reason for the topic selection and the value and significance of the research,combs the research status related to this research at home and abroad,and combs and defines the three important theoretical concepts of this paper,namely Chinese film,cultural memory and identity.The text is divided into five chapters.The first chapter combs the production summary and creative pattern of Singapore Chinese films since the new century,roughly summarizes the types of Singapore Chinese films since the new century into Singapore theme films,commercial films,literary and artistic films and other types,and discusses the creative characteristics of different types of Singapore Chinese films since the new century,It is pointed out that its unique cultural characteristics expand the boundary of Chinese films and are an important text to perspective overseas Chinese culture.The second chapter uses the cultural memory theory to analyze the cultural memory in Singapore Chinese films since the new century,and discusses how the film text reproduces and reshapes Singapore’s cultural memory.This chapter makes a close reading and analysis of Singapore Chinese films since the new century from the perspectives of individual memory,collective memory and national memory,and discusses how they realize the restatement of individual memory,the reconstruction of collective memory and national memory through the set narrative strategy,as well as the reflective narration embodied in the text.At the same time,based on the analysis of the film text,this paper also attempts to explore how the film,as a new "medium of memory",opens up a new memory space for Contemporary Singapore.The third chapter discusses the identity of Chinese films in Singapore since the new century.Through close reading of the text,this chapter mainly analyzes the identity problems shown in the image from the three dimensions of gender identity,national identity and cultural identity,and discusses the multicultural identity form and identity anxiety of Chinese in Singapore in combination with Chinese culture,Confucian culture and other related contents.The fourth chapter further discusses the complex relationship between cultural memory and identity in Singapore Chinese films According to the film text,taking what kind of cultural memory produces what kind of identity as the starting point,this chapter discusses the relationship between cultural memory and identity from two aspects: the impact of cultural memory on identity,the complexity of Singapore’s cultural memory and the complexity of identity.On this basis,it further discusses the complexity of Singaporean Chinese identity and Chinese director identity inside and outside the film text from the perspective of cultural research.The fifth chapter takes the Chinese film creation of Singapore Chinese film director Liang Zhiqiang as a case,and analyzes and studies its writing style,cultural memory and identity with the methods of text analysis and comparative research.The conclusion part reviews and summarizes the whole thesis,and further discusses the creation of Chinese films,the research value of Chinese films and its cultural boundary.