January In 2012

  FINALLY, this is my last blog for whole project, I am focus on my reflection and essay writing, i meet a large amount of questions and troubles during the two mouths, anyway I overcome all of my "enemies". Especially for research, it is really hard to understand English Bibliography. Hope everything will be smoothly in the end.

January In 2012

  This should be the last section of my movie material collcetion, today's main character is world's famous Chinese director ZHANG Yi Mou. Recently a film named “ THE FLOWER OF WAR" is really hot and popular in China and even the whole world, it is a typical ZHANG YI MOU'S film, depth, artistic literature, powerful and impressive. I do a research about the famous Chinese director as follows:

  " ZHANG'S film career is synonymous with the globalization of Chinese cinema. His films have been big winner at major international film festivals. In receiving the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988, Red Sorghum marked the beginning of the integration of Chinese national cinema in global film culture."

  " In 1991, Ju Dou became the first Mainland Chinese film to be nominated for Best Foriegn Picture in the Academy Awards in the United States. One year later , Raise the Red Lantern was also nominated for the same award. Large number of ordinary Americans moviegoers, not just China specialists, went ot art house movie theaters to watch this film. Ever since, Chinese " national cinema" has had a share of hte international film market." 

  There are two typical movies directed by Zhang Yi Mou, one is " Flowers in the War", the next one is ” Curse of  The Golden Flower," both of  the two films are representive project from him. 

     " The international popularity of Zhang's films conveniently thematizes a set of interrelated main concerns of current cultural debates in China : the fate of Chinese national cinema in the condition of transnational capital, " cultural critique" and " cultural exhibitionism" in Fifth-Generation cinema, Third World cinema and Third World criticism, Orientalism, and postcolonialism in Chinese style."

Bibliography:

  1. Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu ( 1997), Transnational Chinese Cinemas: National Cinema, Cultural Critique, Transnational Capital: The Film of Zhang Yimou. University of Hawai'i Press.

January In 2012

 " Issues related to film art form can be understood from there perspectives: the unique characteristics of film; the sourses of material or the way life is reflected; adn its techniques, commonly known as rhetoric." In my project, i select the unique characteristics of film and the sourses of material or the way life is relected to have a deeply anlysis in Chinese movies " colour". 

  “ Whether it is Japanese, Pakistani, Indian, British, or American, we don't need to look at the subtitles, we don't need to listen to the sound, we can tell approximately, sometimes quite clearly, their characteristics and difference. But the differences are the results, not the causes, of the way reality is manifested on screen." After reading this charpter, I found the Chinese Characteristic should be perfect explaination of the " colour" in my work, it is a good harvest today -- Nationalization.

Bibliography:

 1. Zhong Dianfei (1990), Chinese Film Theory : The Debate on the Nationalization of Film. Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Press.

January In 2012

  Finally I confirm the way I do my project, I will write a text essay and offer all of the films sources I have mentioned in my work, tutor can find my sample and watch each of them in a individual memory stick, it is better than a video essay, and I can focus on present Chinese " colour" in my work. Meanwhile I can solve the problem of the language and culture difference.

January In 2012

  Recently, I am really confused to do a essay or a video essay, cos I found it is difficult to intergrate all of my idea into a video, if each point need combine with the video, it will be a huge project, I am in trouble now.

January In 2012

 

Fortunately, I confirm the way to show "colour" of Chinese movie, I take it conclued to two aspects:  one is based on Chinese historical epic stories, another is related to Chinese traditional thought and concept. It is a good improvement during my work, it seems like I find the chain to collecting all of my diamonds I have got, now I can make a beautiful necklace.

December In 2011

  I am really confused for arranging the start order of my whole project, mainly I have two ideas: one is sort by the developing time of Chinese movie; or I want to divided into three parts: mainland, Hong Kong and Tai Wan. It is really hard to make a decision. Whatever I choose to do, it should have a quite strong  logicality. I searched a lot of books, majority of them follow with the timeline of movie developing histroy. However my work is just an essay, I cannot include all of the details and contents, in my opinion I prefer to choose the second one-pick up the most representive and typical sample from the three area of China.