Zhang Yimou's<i>Hero</i>: dismantling the myth of cultural power

Larson, Wendy

doi:10.1386/jcc.2.3.181_1

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“…Admittedly, studies related to Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002) have been made by relevant scholars (e.g. Klein, 2004;Chan, 2004;Larson, 2008;Zhang, 2008;Zhu, 2013). Their studies usually focus on only a single perspective, such as cultural interpretation, global and local cooperation, but sometimes neglect linguistic matters, such as differences of English translations of film dialogues and their Chinese ones and also often ignore their features of cultural hybridization in content and language.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou's Hero is more original Chinese flavor and is faithful to martial arts film style and principles. Nevertheless, its cultural politics of nationalism and totalitarianism have often been attacked by film cultural critics (Larson, 2008). Whereas, as a Chinese martial arts blockbuster that pursued Oscar, Hero's target audiences are not only Chinese but also non-Chinese audiences in which English audience is one of important target groups.…”

Section: National Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Cultural Discourse Analysis to Chinese Martial Arts Movie in the Context of Glocalization: Taking Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero as Cases

Zhang

2019

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This study is oriented to do Chinese cultural discourse analysis via examining two Chinese Wu-Xia (martial arts) movies. Specifically, the study explores the construction of glocalization, cultural hybridization and cultural discourse embedded in the two transnational Chinese martial arts movies, i.e. Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002). The film product is an audiovisual representation of a certain of national culture, ideology and society. Chinese martial arts film is this kind of cultural product that embodies Chinese sociocultural and philosophical values. The research aims to explore the connections between filmic discourse, culture and society. A combined analytical framework that integrates glocalization concept, cultural hybridization and cultural discourse approach is constructed. By comparative analysis, the main finding of the study reveals that Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) presents a high degree of cultural globalization and hybridization, while Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) has relatively a low degree of cultural globalization and hybridization but embodies a high degree of Chinese locally authoritarian culture. This implies that a successful filmic production with strong national features need to organically hybridize global-local culture in proper when it enters globally cultural competition. On the one hand, it should have locally cultural identity; on the other, it should also show a kind of universally cultural values accepted by other cultures.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: National Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%