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http://dx.doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2019.9.2.115

A Study on Development of Chinese xian-xia films and its Space Aesthetics in the 21st Century -Foucuse on Journey to the West films  

Kim, Bo-Kyong (Cultural Institute at Peking University)
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Journal of Convergence for Information Technology / v.9, no.2, 2019 , pp. 115-120 More about this Journal
Abstract
Chinese xian-xia films is a new genre that occurred through the fusion of the genre of martial arts and fantasy. This study analyzed the development of xian-xia films and the space aesthetics of xian-xia films through the miseenscene of the journey to the west films. In particular, the space for xian-xia in the films is divided into the human, urinary, heaven world and the space of conflict. It looks like the fantastic Middle Earth that Tolkien presented, however it is discriminatory in that it shows a highly Chinese appearance and overlapping world centered on the natural environment (the world of Mountains and Livers), such as mountains, deserts, caves, and grasslands, which usually appears in traditional martial arts history. Resently, the boom of journey to the west films is regarded as the change of the Chinese film industry under the influence of the development of IP (Intellectual Property) industry and the western fantasy genre in the 21st century China. This change marks the birth of the new Chinese fantasy "xian-xia" genre with the spirit of the present era that transcends the original world of journey to the west through the hybridization of the genre.
Keywords
Xian-xia films; Journey to the west; Miseenscene; Mixing of Genre; Middle Earth;
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