Between the City and Images:An Analysis of Mainstream Media’s Paths of Constructing the Cultural Memory of a City:Taking Chengdu Radio and Television’s“Hi Chengdu”as an Example

Mainstream media play a crucial role in constructing the cultural memory of a city.This study used 319 short videos released by“Hi Chengdu,”a new media product of Chengdu Radio and Television,as samples.Based on the grounded theory,a research framework encompassing“content,technology,and discourse”was established to explore the paths through which mainstream media construct the cultural memory.Regarding content,this paper emphasized temporal and spatial contexts and urban spaces,delving deep into the themes of the cultural memory and vehicles for it.In terms of technology,this paper discussed the practice of leveraging audio/visual-mode discourse to stitch together the impressions of a city and evoke emotional resonance to create a“flow”of memory.As for discourse,this paper looked at the performance of a communication ritual to frame concepts and shape urban identity.It is essential to break free from conventional thinking and leverage local culture as the primary driving force to further boost a city’s productivity,in order to excel in cultural communication.

A Comparative Analysis of Different Culture Values Reflected in the Disney Movie Mulan

Taking American Disney Movie Mulan as an object of research, this paper intends to compare Chinese and American cultural differences from three aspects, filial piety vs. individualism, family priority vs. the pursuit of success and gender discrimination vs. feminism.

Improvement Strategies of Meteorological Movie and Television Services Facing Public Needs

The development course of China＇s meteorological movie and television was analyzed firstly, and then the improvement strategies of meteorological movie and television services facing public needs were put forward based on the statistical results of a meteorological service questionnaire.

Television as Popular Culture Media and Parental Attention and Their Correlation to the Students＇ Motivation to Choose Major

Television as one of the popular culture media plays an important role in the development of students＇ personality and knowledge because it provides countless information and entertainment that can enhance their knowledge as the viewers. This study was conducted to give an idea whether television viewing and parental attention can assist students to take a decision of choosing major at the senior high school. This study used descriptive method which analyzed the correlation among television viewing, parental attention, and the students＇ motivation to choose a major. The sample of this study consisted of 100 students of the state senior high school in Malang, East Java. The finding shows that there is no correlation among television viewing, parental attention, and the students＇ motivation to choose major at the senior high school. In other words, the possibility of choosing the major can be attributed to some other factors such as interest, talent, aspiration, and other expectation to achieve their goals

Probing into the Influence of American Culture on Chinese Culture from the Angle of Cultural Capital--A Case Study of Hollywood Movies

In this paper,we study the features and implicature of Hollywood movies from the angel of cultural capital,identify development indicators of the Hollywood movie industry,thereby putting forward the future development path of Chinese film culture.

Research on the Development Direction of Traditional Broadcast Television Movie Media under Background of New Media and Internet

In this paper, we conduct research on the development direction of traditional broadcast television movie media under background of new media and lnternet. In recent years, with the computer technology network communication technology and constant innovation rapid development of digital technology, digital new media got rapid development. Under the digital new media industry has gradually become the core industry of 21 st century knowledge economy and the new economic growth point. But there are still some problems in the digital of new media development. How to treat these problems to take effective countermeasures is vital to healthy development of the new media. Our research proposes corresponding guidance and the perspective on the development orientation which acts as the paradigm and the guideline.

Conflict in the Movie “The Treatment” with a Cross-Cultural View

Analyzes the conflicting cases through which the movie develops its plot inspiring an inter-cultural thinking and argumentation from perspectives of attitudes towards law and its social factors, and the family values impacting the conflicts. The author proves the truth of the above two to be the primary causes with thorough analysis of the story details appealing to abundant consentaneous understandings and theories.

Cultural Elements of English Movie Title

Movie title is the name of a movie which to some extent determines the audience's choice to watch the movie or not.English movie title,as a special kind of English language,reflects language and culture of the specific English country.To better understand and appreciate the movie,it is essential to understand the cultural elements of the English movie title.The thesis with start with the introduction of movie title and its naming approaches,then analyze the three cultural elements that is historical,religious and linguistic cultural elements in English movie title in the hope of providing helpful background knowledge for Chinese audience to better appreciate the English culture.

Fine-Grained Emotion Prediction for Movie and Television scene images

For the task of content retrieval,analysis and generation of film and television scene images in the field of intelligent editing,fine-grained emotion recognition and prediction of images is of great significance.In this paper,the fusion of traditional perceptual features,art features and multi-channel deep learning features are used to reflect the emotion expression of different levels of the image.In addition,the integrated learning model with stacking architecture based on linear regression coefficient and sentiment correlations,which is called the LS-stacking model,is proposed according to the factor association between multi-dimensional emotions.The experimental results prove that the mixed feature and LS-stacking model can predict well on the 16 emotion categories of the self-built image dataset.This study improves the fine-grained recognition ability of image emotion by computers,which helps to increase the intelligence and automation degree of visual retrieval and post-production system.

Cultural differences between China and America reflected in the movie Gua Sha

As cross-cultural communication gains growing popularity in our global world,heavy emphasis has been placed on a better understanding of cultural differences among countries.Gua Sha is such a movie that epitomizes the existing cultural differences between China and America.It is to firstly make a brief introduction of the plot and then analyze the causes of various cultural conflicts and finally put forward some suggestions to help avoid these conflicts in cross-cultural communication.

Cultural Implication of American Dream in American Movies

American Dream is one of the core theme reflected in American movies,which have depicted numerous images of ordinary people’s struggle for wealth and success through their own efforts.This paper explores four typical movies and presents the mechanism and mutual influence between American Dream and American movies. The cultural implication of the American Dream is rooted in America.Individualism,Liberty and Equality,Self Reliance and Efforts,Personal Success are all indispensable to the realization of American Dream.

On the Challenge to Traditional Film and Television Cultural ＆ Creative Industry from the Fourth Media

The emergence and development of the "fourth media" will become the focal competition power in the subsequent development of the film and television cultural & creative industry.This paper,on the one hand,will illustrate the characteristics of the "fourth media" in the terms of history;on the other hand,it will emphasize that the economic benefits of the traditional media have been replaced by social contact media.The advantages of the "fourth media" are obvious and it will keep developing.We hope that the "fourth media" market in China could improve constantly with strategic vision and integrate into the world market.

Movie——An Important Media in Cultural Communication between China and America

Culture is the accumulation of life style and idea. As the container of culture, movies become the most important media of cross-cultural communication. This paper explains movie's significance for cross-cultural communication, it tells of the inter-effects on life and spirit between Chinese and American, it provides the strategy for cross-cultural communication for movies.

Youth in Mainstream Arab Media： A Hybrid, Thus Consensual, Television Construct

Entertainment shows in the Arab world stand for something larger than pointless amusements shaped by producers to follow a set of marketing rules. They may be, at times, trivial or foolish but they always address the uncertainties of collective and individual identities in a region boiling with struggles over meanings and knowledge. Because of the liberalization of the Arab television industries, they have successfully integrated the global market and are now elaborating new conventions inspired by both oriental and western references. In this paper, it will explore the depiction of Arab youth as a social construct meant to challenge the nationalistic representation of this ambiguous social category while, at the same time, promoting the regional debate over modernity, Arabism, and change.

The Expression of National Character in Japanese Movies

During the development of Japanese movies,filmmakers paid special attention to integrating their own national characteristics into movies.On the one hand,the national character provides an opportunity for the development of Japanese movies;on the other hand,it also restricts movie activities to a certain extent.The national character has been embodied in the audio-visual language,character creation,and theme expression of Japanese movies.

On the Chinese Elements in Hollywood Movies from Kung fu Panda

With the development of globalization, movie, as the important media for broadcasting and exchanging cultures, promotes the international cultural communications among countries. Kung fu Panda, a blockbuster by Dream works, sets off a new upsurge of the Chinese style. It not only gives a chance for the audiences in western countries to enjoy the traditional Chinese culture, but also for the Chinese to enjoy this visual feast. This article will illustrate the implicit and explicit Chinese elements in Kung fu Panda, in hope of finding out the extensive use of Chinese elements in today＇s Hollywood movies. According to the collection of media data concluded, the film production team undertook detailed investigation and studies in the traditional Chinese culture so that today＇s Hollywood movies can successfully interpret Chinese elements. Thus, the international cultural communications are found hiding behind the widely used of Chinese elements. With the analysis of this article, Chinese reader can know further about how important the diffusion of Chinese traditional culture is. Thereby, it can remind Chinese people of the responsibility to carry on and broadcast the splendid traditional Chinese culture.

English Movies and English Learning in College

Nowadays,English movies have been considered as one of the most effective ways to assist students to keep interest in improving their English abilities and enlarge their English vocabularies,as well as their cross cultural communicative ability.Based on the functions of English movies,which make them meet the needs of college students’English acquisition,this paper analyzes the advantages of English movies in English learning.

Role of English in Chinese Popular Culture

Nowadays Chinese have become much more open and willing to welcome and embrace Western culture, and therefore English plays an important role in Chinese pop culture. This paper intends to analyze the role of English in Chinese advertisements, movies and TV shows, which are shown in China's Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Findings show that English is pervasively used in Chinese commercials in both China's Mainland and Taiwan. Unlike the situations in Taiwan, English is always used in combination with Chinese subtitles in China's Mainland, most international commercials are re-produced to be more applicable to local Chinese communities, and the strategy of advertising is different. In Hong Kong movies, Hong Kong English is used frequently, which gives the evidence that the language mixing behavior is popular in Hong Kong.

论中国新主流电影的硬核叙事及其文化意涵——以张艺谋电影为例

近年来,新主流电影作为主流价值观与意识形态的重要载体,已成为聚焦中国电影的核心类型。如何讲好中国故事,已成为构建中国叙事话语体系的基本命题。伴随着新主流电影的发展,“重影像、轻叙事”似乎成为一种创作趋势,叙事孱弱成为新主流电影传播过程中最明显的短板之一。在此环境下,张艺谋导演的新主流电影向经典戏剧理论借力,以“三一律”的情节整一性作为内核动力,开创了硬核叙事手法,表现出强劲的叙事张力与跃动的生命形式。硬核叙事作为新主流电影叙事困境的一种突围,以叙事意象折射出文化意涵,以低语境结构实现文化传播,为新主流电影构建出新的类型惯例与审美范式,实现了主流价值的隐性传播。因此,对其叙事结构进行探究,可以为中国叙事体系的良性建构提供有意义的参考。