Anran Zhao

Against the backdrop of China’s ongoing process of modernization, contemporary Chinese science fiction film has emerged as a crucial cultural site for articulating alternative imaginaries of modernity. Unlike the Western science fiction tradition centered on technological rationality, individualism and colonial cosmology, Chinese science fiction films take the reinterpretation of traditional cultural resources as a path, presenting a "civilizational modernity" that is both technological, cultural and ethical. This article starts from the cultural logic of Chinese-style modernization and analyzes the translation methods of traditional aesthetics, traditional heroic paradigms and traditional etiquette culture in the visual images of science fiction films. Chinese science fiction films have formed a modern picture with cultural continuity and the spirit of The Times through the landscape of future landscapes, the image schema of group heroes and the construction of an emotional community with visual ritualization. Chinese science fiction films are constructing a modern narrative based on cultural subjectivity, providing a unique cultural path for understanding the spiritual connotation of Chinese-style modernization.

Chinese science fiction films; Chinese-style modernization; Eastern modernity; Reinterpretation of traditional culture.

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