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The Transformation of Father Image in Jia Zhangke's Films

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2023, (67), pp.487-508
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2023..67.018
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : January 10, 2023
  • Accepted : February 20, 2023
  • Published : February 28, 2023

Zhang Kai 1 DIANHUI ZHENG 2

1吉林师范大学 新闻与传播学院
2성결대학교

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ABSTRACT

Director Jia Zhangke has been in film for more than 20 years, and his film style has undergone subtle changes, which is also reflected in the shaping of his father's image. The image of the father in Jia Zhangke's films, with "Still life" as the boundary, presents obviously different characteristics in the early and late works. Combining the background of the era of film creation and personal emotional experience, this change can be regarded as a whole. The transformation from the image of "parents(父辈)" to the specific image of "father(父亲)". The early father image can be regarded as Jia Zhangke’s aesthetic expression of the era’s cognition from the overall perspective of a new generation of directors, and the later father image can be regarded as Jia Zhangke’s emotional externalization of his father’s complex from the level of individual experience. In addition, judging from the emotional tendency of the father image, the father image in the early stage is almost all negative, and the relationship between father and son (daughter) is also opposite, the father images in the later period are almost all neutral and positive, and the relationship between father and son (daughter) is also interlinked.

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