The Research On The Creation Characteristics Of New Costume Historical Dramas

Costume historical drama is a type of TV drama with both historical features and aesthetic connotations.In the passage of time and space,historical dramas in ancient costumes constantly renew themselves,and have experienced the evolution from historical dramas,historical dramas to dramas to palace fighting dramas.Since 2018,there has been a new creative trend in costume historical dramas,and a number of high-quality costume historical dramas have entered the market one after another.These dramas are quite different from the previous historical dramas,historical dramas,and palace fighting dramas in terms of creative characteristics,which aroused the enthusiasm of the audience for discussion.According to the common features of these newly emerged excellent historical dramas in ancient costumes,we creatively named them "New Costume Historical Dramas".Putting the new costume historical drama in the comprehensive space-time coordinate axis to analyze and sort out,it is believed that the changes of national policy,TV drama creation concept and audience’s aesthetic taste jointly lead to the formation of new creative characteristics of costume historical drama.Extending from the explicit symbols to the inner spirit,it is found that the new costume historical drama shows a strong "fusion of ancient and modern" characteristics in terms of creation: In terms of detail presentation,the new costume historical dramas try to restore the ancient time and space as much as possible,and at the same time carry out some "modern" changes to integrate into contemporary popular aesthetics;In terms of story design,focus on the diversification of characters and the innovativeness of the plot,integrate traditional and modern creative techniques,and actively adapt to contemporary expressions while retaining the subtle aesthetic;In terms of cultural connotation,it actively inherits the spirit of traditional culture,and at the same time improves the outdated and inapplicable parts from the perspective of modernity,and has a clear sense of cultural introspection.By summarizing the characteristics of the creation of new costume historical dramas,it can not only further improve the research on TV drama types,but also provide some reference for the specific practice of new costume historical dramas.By interpreting a whole set of creative features of new costume historical dramas,theoretically enriching and expanding the research space of costume historical dramas is also a useful supplement to the research on this type of costume dramas.At the same time,studying the modern emotions and ethics conveyed in the new costume historical drama has direct reference significance for today’s social life.