| Volume 6, Number 4, October 2009 |
Zhang Yimou’s Movies and
Contemporary
Chinese Novels:
A Transition from the Literature Age to the
Image Age
by 苏七七 Su Qiqi
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Hanju Opera
A Brilliant Pearl Lost in the Sea
by 晏未晚 Yan Weiwan |
FROM Red Sorghum (1987) to Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), Zhang Yimou has maintained his place as the most important film director for two decades. In the same way that “a good writer” is distinguished from “an important writer” in literary history, Zhang Yimou’s movies have brought him both applause and criticism, but there has never been doubt about their significance. This lies not only in their aesthetic style and achievements, but also in the symbiotic relationship between ideology and cultural trend—it represents the cultural product of a certain social stage plus its features and composition. For this reason, research into the relationship between Zhang’s movies and contemporary Chinese novels does not focus on whether it is a successful “adaptation”, but on how the adaptation has reflected the changes in media form and social form. It then may be pondered further how to create a virtuous relationship between movie and literature in a time of image and consumption so that they can inspire each other ideologically and aesthetically.
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| Issue 6.4 |
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World Mutation or
Epochal Challenge?
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