The Poetics of <i>Journey to the West</i> (2021): Disclosing a Way to Dwell in the World-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Poetics of Journey to the West (2021): Disclosing a Way to Dwell in the World

Published:2024-08-28 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2702-2277
Container-title:Journal of Chinese Film Studies
language:en
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Author:

Wang Jiawei¹,Yang Junlei¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chinese Language and Literature , 12478 Fudan University , 220 Handan Road , Shanghai , 200433 , China

Abstract

Abstract Science fiction films and poetry are often assumed to be unrelated or even mutually opposed. Among Chinese science fiction films in recent years, Journey to the West is a uniquely poetic example. It offers a secular challenge to science fiction while simultaneously performing a dual construction of science fiction textually and thematically through poetic expressions – thereby expanding the genre boundaries and localized creation possibilities of science fiction films. This paper uses life-world philosophy to examine the film’s existential theme and analyzes the film’s science fiction poetic expressions through the theoretical perspectives of film poem, poetic thinking, poetry-film, and Chinese poetics, arguing that they illustrate and compensate for the limited meaning of the science fiction genre and scientific rationality itself, while exemplifying the ability of science fiction films to serve as a way of disclosing being-in-the-world.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jcfs-2023-0050/pdf

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