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The Ethical Aspiration of the Audience and the Humanist Value of the Story

QU Chun-jing   

  1. School of FilmTelevision Arts and Technologies, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
  • Received:2006-09-25 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-05-15 Published:2007-05-15

Abstract: The aspiration of ethics is one of the man's most fundamental demands when he lives in the world, which has been got mainly by way of the story among the people. Either from religion to fiction, or from films to TV plays, no matter how the form changes, the story gives an important way to learn through the experience of interaction and from the other's life experience. While the charm of the story produces the thirst for knowledge that derives from the anxiety for interaction, the different fates of characters become the best answer to the anxiety and the thirst. Therefore the amusement of films or TV plays is derivative, and is a psychological balance got after the satisfaction of this ethical aspiration. The humanist value of the story lies in itself but something additional.

Key words: interaction, ethical aspiration, film and TV play, viewing psychology, story

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