Construct a comedy aesthetic theoretical system

Comedy is a major category of aesthetics, including the artistic style of different categories. Comedy, like tragedy, is an important category of aesthetics. At present, comedy aesthetics research has achieved a series of influential results, and also faces many new challenges.

New breakthroughs in development

The earliest scholars who introduced and used the concept of "comedy" were Wang Guowei. At the beginning of the 20th century, Wang Guowei clearly stated in his papers "Dream of Red Mansions" that the book "Dream of Red Mansions" is the opposite of all comedies, and a complete tragedy. Due to the influence of traditional aesthetic tragedy and light comedy concepts, coupled with the complexity and particularity of comedy research itself, the academic circles have not been systematic and in -depth for a long time. In order to further promote the research of comedy, in 1982, more than a dozen scholars represented by Chen Xiaoying, the former director of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Art, set up a "comedy salon" and put forward the new concept of "comedy aesthetics".

Over the past 40 years, the Chinese Comedy Aesthetic Research Team has published dozens of academic monographs such as "Comedy Aesthetic theory", "Human Mystery", "World Comedy Art Overview", "Chinese Comedy Aesthetics", "History of Chinese Modern Comedy Literature" In the "Comedy World" journal, more than ten national and international academic seminars were held, and experiments and promotion activities for comedy art styles such as sketches, talk shows, and comics were carried out. Town.

my country's comedy aesthetics research shows bright colors. Wei Jiuyao, director of the Institute of Aesthetics of the Academy of Literature of Yan'an University, said that comedy aesthetic workers have founded a new discipline of comedy aesthetics and initially established a relatively complete comedy aesthetic discipline system. Linguistics and rhetoric methods are integrated in comedy aesthetics. In its disciplinary system, the seven major comedy aesthetic divisions of humor, irony, funny, witty, wise, 揶揄, weird, and absurdity have been established. Suspense, intention rendering, reversal, mutations, and basic comedy types are negative, affirmative, and "pure humor". However, these achievements do not cover many challenges facing the current comedy aesthetics. Wei Jiuyao believes that my country's comedy aesthetics research has not kept the pace of domestic aesthetics.

In terms of promoting comedy practice, Chinese comedy aesthetics continues to launch and participate in new comedy creation, performances, competition forms, and innovation of communication methods. Xie Xuhui, a professor at the School of Literature and Press and Communication of Shangrao Normal University, told reporters that the TV comedy column "Weekend Happy Meeting" came out, the comedy magazine "Comedy World", the creation of comedy 365 website, the establishment of comedy groups (Comedy Aesthetic Research Association, etc.) The establishment of the "Humor Bookstore" and the Architecture, especially from local to various levels of "Comedy Television Exhibition Tournament" from various levels across the country. The establishment of the meeting, etc., all shows that comedy aesthetics really achieved a virtuous circle of comedy theory guiding comedy practice and comedy practice to promote comedy theory.

People cannot be intoxicated or even illusory due to the above comedy phenomenon. Xie Xuhui believes that whether it is comedy creation or comedy aesthetics, there have been some changes in the era, such as chaotic comedy concepts, vulgar aesthetics, and aesthetic orientation. Taking the TV comedy reality show as an example, some comedy reality shows are superficial, flat, and vulgar in content, and there are tendencies that replace art and form in form in form. At the same time, TV media programs are similar to each other, and the "short -flat" program system and broadcast cycle leads to severe overdrafts throughout the comedy market.

Find a new way out of discipline construction

Where should Chinese comedy aesthetics go in the face of all aspects of challenges?

Comedy aesthetics need to continuously improve the ability to deal with actual needs. Su Hui, a professor at the School of Literature of Huazhong Normal University, said that comedy aesthetics itself has cross -disciplinary characteristics, which allows them to use extensive theoretical and artistic resources to break the barriers of disciplines. Ethics, science and technology and other disciplines are integrated to achieve new breakthroughs in comedy creation and comedy aesthetics. For example, combining comedy aesthetics and ethics is an important area worth expanding. Traditional comedians and theorists have always attached great importance to the value of ethical education and social critical significance of comedy. They believe that comedy is the purpose of implanted the pseudo -evil and ugly phenomenon of society to punish evil and good. effect.

In the future, Chinese comedy aesthetics can only achieve great development only along the top philosophical direction and the subjectization and scientific route built by comedy aesthetics themselves. Wei Jiuyao proposed that from the perspective of the metaphysical philosophy, it is necessary to open up a new perspective of diversified philosophical methods. On the subjectization and scientific line of comedy aesthetics itself, we must adhere to the research direction of aesthetics in categories, take comedy as the highest category and logical starting point of beauty, and return to other categories of beauty, and rebuild a new system of aesthetic theory with historical restoration methods.

Chen Xiaoying draws a "new blueprint" for the second "no confusion" of comedy aesthetics. He proposed that comedy aesthetics should comprehensively strengthen the entity construction of disciplines, carefully study new knowledge and methods, and strive to improve the academic system, and gradually grow from "prototype" to a new subject of aesthetics in an independent category. On the one hand, it is necessary to organize a national research team and write a comedy aesthetic compilation textbook to make this discipline test and spread in a wider and higher level of teaching practice. On the other hand, the compilation and translation of the "History of Comedy Aesthetics" must be fully launched. Organizational comedy aesthetics experts collect and "rescue" historical materials nationwide, compile a "history of Chinese comedy aesthetic disciplines" containing words, pictures, audio -visuals, and videos, as well as supporting chronicles and history, and organize more organizations. Language and high -level translation teams translate them into foreign languages ​​to the world. In the new era, China's comedy industry is booming, and Chinese comedy aesthetics research will also have a broader development space.

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

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