Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.01.016
Phenomenon, Cause and Change—Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Successes, Failures and Improvements of Chinese Main Melody Films
Kun Qian
Master of Arts in Creative and Media Industries (MA), Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.
*Corresponding author: Kun Qian
Published: March 30,2022
Abstract
Since the beginning of the new century, the Chinese film industry has presented a situation where a hundred flowers are blooming. Among them, the film market with the theme of “main melody” has made great progress. After a brief overview of the development stage of Chinese theme movies, the author briefly analyzes several important factors that affect the development of Chinese theme movies. The article starts from three aspects: the ideology of a specific period, the change of the narrative angle of the characters in the film, and the cultural tendency of the connotation of the work. With reference to the phenomena, causes and changes generally presented in the main theme film performance of the new period, it discusses some of the author’s opinion. Sharing and arguing about the need to give full play to the core values of society in the application of creative ideas, about the need to abandon rigid and simple imitation in the expression of aesthetic tendencies and about the need to pursue higher cultural qualities in media creation.
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How to cite this paper
Phenomenon, Cause and Change—Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Successes, Failures and Improvements of Chinese Main Melody Films
How to cite this paper: Kun Qian. (2022) Phenomenon, Cause and Change—Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Successes, Failures and Improvements of Chinese Main Melody Films. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 6(1), 158-162.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.01.016