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Proposed Topic:

The topic of my investigation is concerned with the relationship between an essential media text — Chinese film — and an essential cultural medium — the Chinese city, as this relationship contributes to exploring the cultural representation of Chinese cinematic cities and Chinese cinema. 

The research is an analysis of the second identity that Chinese films offered Chinese cinematic cities while those cities have their own lives and histories. Two representative Chinese cities — Hong Kong and Shanghai — and several representative Chinese films which are made after 1990s and reflect the features of these cities respectively as thematic content will form the core of my investigation.

Research Aims:

The aims of this research are: first, to investigate the ways of interaction and combination between Chinese films and the Chinese cities in cultural, social and historical aspects. Second, to analyze the cinematic representations of Hong Kong, and Shanghai in their distinctive urban, regional and transnational contexts. Third, to demonstrating the active effects of Chinese films in Chinese urban cultural and cross-cultural communication, so as to help the audiences promote the comprehension of Chinese cinema and Chinese postmodern culture as well as improve the intercultural communications in a global context. 

Conceptual Issues:

The research will focus on the following issues:

1.  How do Chinese movie directors use the network of artchitectural forms as materials of semiotic to express the features of Chinese film and Chinese urban culture.
2. How do Chinese contemporary films reflect the characteristics of postmodernity of Chinese cinematic cities.
3.  As the key role of cultural production in global circulation, how does Chinese film establish new cultural spaces and social relations as the symbols of cinematic cities while represent the globalization visually and narratively. 
4.  How do Hong Kong films (especially in Kar Wai Wong’s films) combine regional cultures of Shanghai as an example of Chinese multi-cultural interaction and combination.

Background:

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the fortunes of film and the cities have been closely linked on a number of levels. The films have been constantly fascinated with the presentation of the distinctive spaces, lifestyles and human conditions of the cities. The cities as the dominant organizing structures of modern culture have become significant place of interest for a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social science. 

Urbanization is along with the expansion of industrial capitalism, and it is the motion of the transform for modernization. Comparing with the former art forms, the scenes of films not only records and reflect the lives in the cities, but also affect and establish the new transform of cultural space and social relations as the symbol of the modern cities.
However, the developments of Chinese cinematic cities and Chinese Cinemas have their own specificities. The city space has played an increasing role in Chinese cinema since 1988-1990 when a first set of city was produced. Since then a new generation of Chinese directors came along and started to pay close attention to combining film aesthetics and specific urban cultural ele本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。