From Patricide to Patrilineality: Adapting <i>The Wandering Earth</i> for the Big Screen
This paper discusses how Liu Cixin’s 2000 novella “The Wandering Earth” was adapted into a family melodrama that ultimately reinforces the authority of the Father and the nation-state. It analyzes the complex mechanisms, such as <i>mise en abyme</i> and scapegoating, that serve to condon...
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| description | This paper discusses how Liu Cixin’s 2000 novella “The Wandering Earth” was adapted into a family melodrama that ultimately reinforces the authority of the Father and the nation-state. It analyzes the complex mechanisms, such as <i>mise en abyme</i> and scapegoating, that serve to condone the patriarch’s power, as well as the intertextuality tying the film to the socialist culture. This paper analyses the social context that foregrounds the conversion from symbolic patricide (breaking the established system) to symbolic patrilineality (integration into the social order) in the film and also discusses the inherent tension between the radical apocalyptic vision offered in the original science fiction story and the cultural industry serving the interests of the established order. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-264685885a0a4f139df98ffde6e47f1c2023-11-20T12:33:17ZengMDPI AGArts2076-07522020-09-01939410.3390/arts9030094From Patricide to Patrilineality: Adapting <i>The Wandering Earth</i> for the Big ScreenPing Zhu0Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USAThis paper discusses how Liu Cixin’s 2000 novella “The Wandering Earth” was adapted into a family melodrama that ultimately reinforces the authority of the Father and the nation-state. It analyzes the complex mechanisms, such as <i>mise en abyme</i> and scapegoating, that serve to condone the patriarch’s power, as well as the intertextuality tying the film to the socialist culture. This paper analyses the social context that foregrounds the conversion from symbolic patricide (breaking the established system) to symbolic patrilineality (integration into the social order) in the film and also discusses the inherent tension between the radical apocalyptic vision offered in the original science fiction story and the cultural industry serving the interests of the established order.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/9/3/94science fiction<i>The Wandering Earth</i>patricidepatrilinealityadaptationnationalism |
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| title | From Patricide to Patrilineality: Adapting <i>The Wandering Earth</i> for the Big Screen |
| title_full | From Patricide to Patrilineality: Adapting <i>The Wandering Earth</i> for the Big Screen |
| title_fullStr | From Patricide to Patrilineality: Adapting <i>The Wandering Earth</i> for the Big Screen |
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| title_short | From Patricide to Patrilineality: Adapting <i>The Wandering Earth</i> for the Big Screen |
| title_sort | from patricide to patrilineality adapting i the wandering earth i for the big screen |
| topic | science fiction <i>The Wandering Earth</i> patricide patrilineality adaptation nationalism |
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