碩士 / 世新大學 / 口語傳播學研究所 / 101 / Literature documentary films, which have been developed since late 1990s in Taiwan, seem to have come to an interesting stage with various media forms merged and familiar generic boundaries blurred. The most outstanding case is doubtlessly “The Man Behind the Book” (2011) directed by Lin Jin-Jie. Given its “literary” nature, it has nonetheless been released to the general public, like any other commercial films, and won great recognition in the island country. Interested by its unusual success, culturally as well as commercially, this thesis explores the narrative strategies Director Lin uses to woo the ordinary audience without losing its literary appeal and touch, especially when the main protagonist is a tough case: the modernist writer Wang Wen-Hsing!
Based on textual analysis, the author finds that the film is strategically balanced in serving its dual purposes, i.e., making the writer closer to the general public as an interesting film on the one hand while in the meantime offering biographical records as a literature documentary on the other hand. With Part 1 catering to the ordinary tastes and Part 2 more to the inner life of the writer, Director Lin does not rely on ordinary story-telling with linear narratives. Instead, he uses techniques of clues and collages, with a motley mixture of photography, animation, stage performance, real-life film clips… etc. In this way, the image of Wang the writer is made more complete, with sufficient breadth and depth, as a public figure with inner quests and struggles not just in writing, but also in everyday aesthetics, if all sustained by a much cherished religious belief.
The thesis concludes that by his unique approach and strategies, Director Lin departs from the traditional literature documentaries by exploring for us the frontiers of this genre in the era of digital convergence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101SHU05760049 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Bei-Hua Wu, 吳倍華 |
| Contributors | none, 沈錦惠 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 160 |
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