​Postmodern Narrative and Cinematic Sense of Place in Bashu Dialect Cinema

Postmodern Narrative and Cinematic Sense of Place in Bashu Dialect Cinema

Cao Zhong

(1.College of Liberal Arts, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715)

[Abstract] In recent years, Bashu dialect cinema, which uses Sichuan and Chongqing dialects as its primary linguistic medium, has attracted extensive attention from both academia and the market. In these films, dialect has long transcended its conventional linguistic-geographical significance, becoming the core means through which directors construct postmodern narratives and shape a cinematic sense of place. Through analysis of representative Bashu dialect films such as A Cool Fish, Crazy Stone, and Clouds Over Wushan, this paper, on the one hand, reveals how dialect presents regional cultural characteristics within postmodern cinematic narratives, and on the other hand, explores the role of dialect cinema in shaping the cinematic sense of place within postmodern narrative frameworks.

 [Keywords] Bashu dialect cinema; postmodern narrative; cinematic sense of place; identity recognition

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