Formal_quest_of_Hollywood_Classic(Zhu_Taoxiang).ppt

Formal Quest in Hollywood Classics: Case of Legends of the Fall好莱坞经典电影的形式追求：以《燃情岁月》为例 by Zhu Taoxiang Part I Introduction screen age: narrative forms of films, sketch of Legends of the Fall Why films? Know yourself! (temple at Delphi)（self-discovery） Hollywood: battle of forms Tools(codes) for formal analysis: narratologies(叙事学), cultural awareness Film study: immediate response to the booming film industry Novels/stories: silent literature, reading lays them bare Films: visible, audible literature, via multimedia means, formidable pictures, sounds ,music, favorite art form for the viewers living in the age dominated by “fast food” and “instant culture” Conspiracy: producer and audience, one for commercial success number of viewers, another for escape from the real world/ sensual ecstasy/artistic enjoyment commercial films and purely artistic films: tastes/ranks, popular/classic, high culture/low culture, highbrows/lowbrows Art form: thematic analysis realistic way of interpretation ? elements frequently discussed before: depiction of characters, plots, meaning Approaches to film studying: Hollywood classics all weave a labyrinth of themes—with relevance to other works of arts (literature and films), palimpsests(印迹文本), embracing cultural elements in mainstream literature in the west, archetypes（原型） in literary canon（正典）, Bible and Greek mythology Narratologies combines the textual analysis with the cultural study, with focus on the structure of the text or film. It aims at laying bare the principles to arrange the events, hidden structural beauty of the story and cultural implications behind it. Forms of films under narrative perspectives Narrative structure: explicit implicit, endless selling points interpretations ●Narrator/point of view/voice(叙述人/叙述视点/声音）：who is the story-teller? eg., Brave Heart, A River Runs through It, The Redemption of Shawshank, Forrest Gump, The Phantom of the Opera, The Joy-luck Club, L