Broken Aesthetics: Wasteland Film

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200826.109How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Broken aesthetics, apocalyptic, wasteland film, doomsday complex, ruins

Abstract

Aesthetics is a process of discovering one’s main coordinate in roaming [1]. It is proposed that the concept of broken aesthetics is derived from the inspiration vaguely generated under the combined forces of professional knowledge, aesthetic experience, and critical consciousness in the daily massive movie-watching process. Broken aesthetics is the abstraction and sublimation of alternative aesthetic consciousness in the film, showing another kind of extreme beauty. It belongs to the beauty based on the imagination of life, which is metaphorical and requires an aesthetic imagination. The concept of waste land originated from the public’s concern about nuclear war after world war II. However, it was not until the birth and popularity of the eponymy video game in the last century that the term waste land became popular and developed into wasteland film by combining it with B-Sci-fi. Taking wasteland films as an example, this paper expands the meaning of broken beauty, which is missing in film aesthetic culture, and gives poetry and connotation with the help of the appearance of brokenness..

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ai Zhang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/28
TI  - Broken Aesthetics: Wasteland Film
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 547
EP  - 551
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200826.109
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200826.109
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