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Space and Transcending
——The Genre Characteristics and Narrative
Turn of Hollywood Films at the Age of Globalization

  

  • Received:2011-06-20 Online:2011-11-15 Published:2011-11-15

Abstract:

]While genre films are characteristic of the narrative structure grounded on space relationships, transcending narratives consist of their interior mechanism full of vitality. Hollywood films can keep a virtuous cycle all the time simply because they pursue a different performance in the formula. On the one hand, the cultural turn at the age of globalization promotes a wider attempt or application for the transcending narrative of crossing genres; and on the other hand, the mixture of antigenre transcending methods and diversified modes display the narrative turn of Hollywood films in the structure and layout of the narrative space. Especially, Hollywood' s transcending consciousness based on the global view makes genre films unfold a market strategy or cultural trend of the transition to postgenre films, which is an inevitable resonance phenomenon of the coming of global age and the current development of genre films.
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Key words: While genre, films are characteristic, of the narrative structure, grounded

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