Abstract:

Since the early 1980s when Mr. Zhong Dianfei made his proposition concerning the creation of the Chinese western film, and after a long period of the rapid development in the mid 1980s and the prosperous climax in the end of the 1980s, China has produced a great number of works characteristic of the western culture. These films, full of the western spirit and consciousness, possess a strong favor of the northwestern nationality and regional feature, and, by virtue of their expression and exploration in modern image language, echo the rise of the image esthetics in the new period, thus forming the unique aesthetic style, even, in a certain degree, China' s symbolization of cultural sign and figure. A practical and theoretical consideration of the creation of the Chinese western film has an important value both for the Chinese history of film and for the current film practice. The cultural influence and spiritual variation of the Chinese western film are spread to some film creation in the new century. In the age of globalization, for our investigation of the Chinese western film, it has a great important value and revelation in the construction of China' s film genre and the international dissemination of culture.