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| On the Involution Phenomenon of the Sixth Generation of Chinese Directors from the Perspective of Intergenerational Change |
| Meng Jun |
| College of Arts， Wuhan University， Wuhan 430072 |
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Abstract In the past 30 years， the sixth generation of directors has gradually cruised from the verge of China’s film ecosystem to the center， completing a new round of intergenerational replacement. With the advent of maturation stage， the new works of the sixth generation show an obvious tendency of involution， which was manifested in the refinement of narrative discourse and the shrinkage of meaning production. Involution is a phenomenon with both advantages and disadvantages. The positive aspect is that the delicate narrative makes the sixth generation more aesthetically acceptable， while the negative aspect is that the depletion of meaning leads to the crisis of the sixth generation. The increasingly prominent involution phenomenon of the sixth generation is attributed to the evolvement rule of intergenerational replacement， self-contradiction of authors’ notion and the insurmountable boundary built by excessive erosion of commercial powers. An effective method for the sixth generation to resist the tendency of involution is to describe and interpret the social reality from the authors’ point of view.
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Received: 17 September 2020
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2020, Vol. 59 
