Transformation of Contemporary Film Genre

Fangyi Xu is film writer/director, and Lecturer at Communication University of China. She has a PhD from Peking University and a master’s degree from University of Southern California. She has also worked as a Postdoctor at Tsinghua University. She has international vision and inter-disciplinary background (art, humanities, communication, etc.), as well as a wide variety of practical experience in creation, research and teaching in the film and television industry at home and abroad.   

1. Introduction.- 2. “Genres” and mainstream ideological films.- 3. Aesthetic construction of genre narration.- 4. Action: contemporary narratives.- 5. Historical films: beyond national imagination.- 6. Biographical films: aesthetic reconstruction of political ethics.