"The Death-Life"Ritual:Xie Jin's Film Language and"Modernization"
In movies in New China,the death of a heroic figure is often accompanied by ritualized expression,as is the case with Xie Jin's The Red Detachment of Women.In the 1980s,the expression of death rituals in his movies was either no longer used or transformed into"death-life"rituals,which meant that emotional expression was directed more towards the future.The change of his movie language in the 1980s was not unrelated to the trend of"moderniza-tion of movie language"then,behind which was the overall context of the whole society moving towards"moderniza-tion",as well as the criticism of"Xie Jin's movie style"arising from it.From our standpoint today,we can see that the ritualized expression in movies should be the product of a culture,which has little to do with ideology,and Xie Jin not only adapted to the requirements of"modernization",but also adhered to traditional aesthetics in the era of great reforms.
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