“Tame” the Masses: The Second Construction of China’s New War Films in Multiple Spaces

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10.2991/assehr.k.211120.097How to use a DOI?

Keywords

New War Films; violent aesthetics; mainstream ideology

Abstract

Since its inception, movies have received wide attention and popular love from all walks of life. With the development of the entire film industry and the generational changes in the mainstream of the popular aesthetic consciousness, Chinese war-themed movies have different visual presentations and theme expressions. “New” refers to the different evolution of the film under the influence of multiple spaces. With the changes in heavy industry films, new film technology and public demand, China’s New War Films have been re-constructed in multiple spaces, and they have begun to turn to spectacle narratives and cross-domain expressions, satisfying the reasonable imagination of the public, but also jumping out of the relative rigidity of the past “framework expression”. In addition, this paper will focus on the two aspects of “the evolution of violence aesthetics under the influence of the voice of modern images” and “the establishment of a cultural value system under the theory of ideological state apparatus”, focusing on how the China’s New War Films “tames” the public, and in cross-cultural exchanges, the national culture is successfully connected with the world’s multiculturalism and the introverted national cultural self-confidence is established, and even the goal of “anti-war” and reflection on war are achieved.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meng Yang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - “Tame” the Masses: The Second Construction of China’s New War Films in Multiple Spaces
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 520
EP  - 523
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.097
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.097
ID  - Yang2021
ER  -