Taiwan Post-New Cinema: Collective Memory in the Aesthetics of the Common People

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10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_75How to use a DOI?

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Post-New Cinema; collective memory; common people aesthetics; identity

Abstract

In 2008, amid the global trend of Hollywood blockbusters, the film Cape No.7 won an unprecedented box office record in Taiwan, marking the beginning of a new post-new era in Taiwan. As an important branch of mass aesthetics and mass culture, the new aesthetic form represented by the aesthetics of the common people has been implanted into the film by the new directors in the post-Cape No. 7 era to facilitate cultural transformation and dissemination. This phenomenon can be explained by the concept of “collective memory” proposed by Maurice Halbwachs in sociology. In the process of tracing back to the local “cultural memory” and “communicative memory”, the Post-New Taiwan cinemas provide a sense of identity for Taiwan aborigines. Under the influence of the impact of Hollywood blockbusters on the Taiwan film industry and related policies, the creators of the post-Cape No.7 era completed the “social construction” of collective memory through the splicing of memories in the films.

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
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