重慶科技學院畢業設計（論文） 題 目 A Review of Popular British TV-series in Recent 10 Years 關于近10年以來流行英劇的研究述評 學 院 外國語學院 專業班級 英語二專2009級 學生姓名 張 英 學號 2009442918 指導教師 李 寧 職稱 副教授 評閱教師 職稱 2013年 6 月 6 日 Graduation Thesis of Chongqing University of Science & TechnologyA Review of Popular British TV-series in Recent 10 YearsUndergraduate: Zhang YingSupervisor: Associate Prof. Li Ling A ThesisSubmitted to the School of Foreign Languagesin Partial Fulfillment of the RequirementFor the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English At Chongqing University of Science & Technology June 6, 2013 重慶科技學院本科生畢業論文 ACKNOWLEDGE Acknowledgment I am heartfelt for those who have helped me in my thesis making and generous supports during the course of my study of M.A. Degree. My deepest and sincerely thanks are due to my supervisor, Associate Prof. Li Ling, who always gives me patient instructions, constructive suggestion and guidance in telephone calling or anything else way she can be in touch with me. Without her encouragements and insightful guidance, I would not made this thesis successfully and timely. I also thank her critical yet very caring and instructive. I am paying my gratefulness to all the teacher for their devoted teaching and patient tutoring in the four years of my undergraduate student study. My thanks also go to my English partner Zhong Mei who encourages my English learning throughout the college life time. She made me competitive and stepping forward.Finally, I have to say so thankful to my family support in these year, whatever the support stem from the finance planning or the advice guiding. They back me, encourage me, and see me going to the success. 重慶科技學院本科生畢業論文 ABSTRACT ABSTRACTTV-series and culture and closely related. TV-series as a comprehensive form of art, reflects a country or region of cultural, history, and society, which promote the further understanding of culture. The British TV-series shows the Britishs unique sense of humor and livings in todays society life. Through the thesis a clear impression would be given by the author. In this paper, inducting and carding from the definition, classification, reasons and other aspects, the author makes a comparative literature review of popular British TV-series in recent 10 years, including classic dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on, comes to a conclusion on the understanding of British culture.At the end of this thesis, the author hopes this thesis will be of some help to those who concern with the British culture or cross-culture communication. Whats more, the author also looks foreward to helping the people of Chines TV-series to promote the development of Chines TV-series. Key words: culture British TV-series popular重慶科技學院本科生畢業論文 摘要 摘要 電視劇和文化密切相關。電視劇作為一種綜合的藝術表現形式，反映了一個國家或地區的文化，歷史，社會，可以促進人們對文化的更深層次理解。英國電視展現了劇英國人獨特的幽默感以及當今社會英國人的生活百態。通過本文的研究，作者將給出一個關于英劇的清晰印象。 本文通過歸納和梳理，從定義、分類、原因和其他方面，對近10年以來的流行英國電視劇做文獻綜述，這些英國電視劇包括古典劇、懸疑劇、情景喜劇等。來對英國文化的理解的一個結論，旨在加深對英國文化的了解。最后，作者希望本文對關心英國文化或者對夸文化交際研究感興趣的人能有所幫助。甚至，作者還希望本文會對中國的電視劇工作者在促進中國電視劇的發展提供幫助。關鍵詞：文化 英國電視劇 流行重慶科技學院本科生畢業論文 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION1CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW22.1 INTRO OF THE POPULAR BRITISH TV-SERIES22.2 CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE POPULAR BRITISH TV-SERIES42.2.1 Classical Dramas42.2.2 Suspense Dramas52.2.3 Situation Comedies52.3 REASONS FOR THE POPULARITY OF BRITISH TV-SERIES62.3.1 Culture62.3.2 Production62.3.3 Medium7CHAPTER THREE CONCLUSION8BIBLIOGRAPHY9重慶科技學院本科生畢業論文 Chapter One Introduction Chapter One Introduction Along with the London Olympic Games ended, peoples interest of British culture has not decreased. People pay much attention on a lot of popular British TV-series shows it. TV-series as a comprehensive form of art, reflects a country or region of cultural, history, and society, which promote the further understanding. With the sweeping of British TV-series especial in China, more and more people pay close attention to it. Many scholars and researchers have conducted researches in this field. This paper which collates and reviews the related literature of the popular British TV-series studies in recent ten years to strengthen us understanding of learning British culture. With corpus method, this paper aims at obtaining the British culture in different periods, the Britishs unique sense of humor and livings in todays society life, by means of studying popular British TV-series in recent 10 years, including classic dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on.There are three chapters in this thesis. The first chapter is the introductory part, in which the purpose of the research, the significance of the research, the previous studies on popular British TV-series in recent 10 years and the structure of the thesis is put forward. In chapter Two the author concludes the classifications of different kinds of British TV-series both at home and abroad and tries to make it clear to the reader as well. Concludes the classic dramas of popular British TV-series, including classic dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on. And deals with the reasons how could the British TV-series be so popular in recent 10 years. The last part of the thesis, the author draws a conclusion about the whole thesis and discusses what we can learn form the popular British TV-series.The China Academic Journal Full-text Database CNKI、WanFang Digital Periodical、Science and technology periodical database of VIP are used to be the corpus of the paper by the author.9重慶科技學院本科生畢業論文 Chapter Two Literature Review Chapter Two Literature Review2.1 Intro of the Popular British TV-seriesWhen people talk about British culture the first sensation come into mind must be the gentleman spirit, noble with thousand years history of British. And when talk about the British TV-series everyone are familiar with Mr. Bean, Sherlock Holmes in few years ago. But the British TV-series becomes more and more popular in recent 10 years. There are further more hot TV-series are known by more and more people. There are Hustle, North and South, Shameless in 2004, Downton Abbey, Sherlock Holmes in 2010, Black Mirror, silk in 2011 and so on. British TV-series is not only in the past 10 years production increases but also the plot excellent.British TV-series can be distinctive according to different criteria, including different themes or different plots. Some scholars classify the British TV-series into serious plays and situation comedies; some sort them into classic dramas, suspense dramas, lawyers and political dramas, Science fiction and other kinds of themes; some also put them into British TV-series in general TV-series and mini series. Wang Juan (2012) gives it as follows: (1)The manor; (2) Detective; (3) Current affairs satire comedy. Wang Juan(2012) believes that there are so many British TV-series themes are about manor. Such as the very hot drama Downton Abbey, Jan Austins drama adaptation of pride and Prejudice. He also believes that the detective drama is another key word of British TV-series. Such as another popular drama Sherlock, which is adapted of Conan Doyles classic novel. He thinks the British are good at irony. Current affairs satire comedy shows that fully. Niu Nai(2012) in his paper The British TV-series comes-reading the 20 strong British dramas divides the British TV-series as follows: (1) classical dramas; (2)science fiction dramas; (3) lawyers and political dramas. About the classical dramas, there are Downton Abbey, Elizabeth I . About the science fiction dramas there are Doctor Who, Eleventh Hour. And about the lawyers and political dramas, there are State of Play, Silk , Bleak House and so on. British TV-series has a lot of audiences. For example, Downton Abbeys Premiere had attracted 11800000 audiences in British. Then, the strong viewing situation remained to the end. And the average audience rating of the series for the first season also enter the UK TV TOP10 runner-up position. In addition, Downton Abbey in the United States is also greatly welcomed.In January 9, 2011 the United States PBS began to broadcast the seriess first season, which not only won industry acclaim but also with double ordinary viewing record started first in the United States of America. Whats more, it is also very popular in China. 2.2 Classifications of the popular British TV-seriesAs a new popular TV-series , British TV-series has been a hot topic in the field of TV-series both at home and abroad. Many scholars and experts both at home and abroad have published their writings and articles to probe into the topic of British TV-series. There are all kinds of popular British TV-series, such as classical dramas, suspense dramas, situation comedies and so on. 2.2.1 Classical Dramas First, the sweeping whole world classical drama Downton Abbey bring us back the early 20th-century lives and historical events(Huntley and Dana2012:26-31). The first and second Industrial Revolution and the thought collision between new old were the theme of the times by Zhang Yun(2012). Sun Xiaoji(2012) said it was real description of noble spirit. And Xu Jian and Liu Chang(2012) believe the destiny was a result of everyones choices from the drama. it wons the British National Television Awards for Best Drama Award, American television Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award. And the Guinness World Records Record as the worlds most popular TV drama of 2010 year, which becomes the first award of the British drama.Shen Lin(2012) says in UK Downton Abbey has been evaluated as the best TV-series since the Pride and Prejudice in 1995. From another hand, the comments also reflects the Pride and Prejudices classic status can not shake. Whether the original novel or adaptation of the TV-series pride and Prejudices ability captured the hearts of the people has lasted for two hundred years. Although the two stories s background is separated by a century, there are some great similarities in the storiess subject between Downton Abbey and Pride and Prejudice. For example, the main actor and actress ask for pride and prejudice, their twists and turns fate and the part of the female role in the works embodied the idea of feminism. Pen Zi(2012) said the British TV-series with its local style, humor and humanity firmly occupy a space for one person in the international market. She also believe the actors lines and tone of voice reflect the characters directly in pride and Prejudice. Such as “Darcy: Shes tolerable, I suppose. But shes not handsome enough to gempt me. Im in no humor go give consequence to yong ladies who are slighted by other men. Go back to your partner. Enjoy her smiles. Youre wasting your time to me.” It can reflect the actor Darcys pride to actress. Zhao Meng(2012) shows that BBC is good at adapting classics masterpiece into a TV drama. Such as pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, North and South, Wives and Daughters, Little Dorrit and so on. She also believes the British TV-series story and characterization describes minutely and carefully. Whats more, the scene is picturesque. All above have not given full expression to ones view, especially the humanistic care and delicate, as well as the theme of the mere cipher always make people feel it full of wisdom. 2.2.2 Suspense Dramas About the suspense dramas From Weinman and Jaime J(2012: 104-104) we know in recent TV adaptations Sherlock Holmes is a much cooler modern man who used to be a dour Victorian. And from Sherlock there is a sense of unique British humor(Ling Yiming 2012), such as “Sherlock: Iam trying to think. Anderson, face the other way. Youe pulling me off. Anderson: So what? Sherlock: Anderson, dont talk out loud. You lower the IQ of the whole street.”. Qu Hui(2012) believes the modern high technology brings us some hurt just like what the second story named Fifteen Million Merits of suspense drama Black Mirror shows. With an absurd story, The Nation Anthem the first story of Black Mirror shows us the Britishs spirit of irony and black humor(Chen Huohuo 2012). 2.2.3 Situation ComediesAt last the situation comedies such as Black Books, The It Crowd and The Office are full of all kind of joke and humor. Whats more, The Office is a challenge from traditional situation comedies with a way of documentary(Zhang Xiaojun 2005). Zeng Lan(2005) said TV situation comedies are simply a series of comedic narrative on the TV screen presentation. It is basically the same actors, props and field show a series of stories, each story is an independent and complete narrative part. One feature of situation comedies is funny, that is to say, in certain situations show specific roles in the funny experience and behavior, and its purpose lies in making people laugh. Zeng Lan thinks that situation, the dramatic story and creating a dramatic role is the essential three points of situation comedies. 重慶科技學院本科生畢業論文 Chapter Two Literature Review 2.3 Reasons for the Popularity of British TV-series 2.3.1 CultureThe important reason for popularity of British TV-series is that the British is the country of drama, including Shakespeare Drama, the outstanding literary classics of Jan Austin, Charles Dickens and so on. There are abundant culture source material. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Wives and Daughters are adapted successfully(Wang Qiong 2011). Niu Nai(2012) believes the other reason is the originality of the story without copying the old story as usual.British TV-series in China and other countries on the dissemination of culture, make the British culture, customs, politics, value of cognition by is known by many countries and they are eager to understand the cultural, political, and economic empires of Britain, which is one reason of the popularity of British drama.2.3.2 Production The British TV-seriess plot of story are very compact, such as the writer just gives Lady Mary 10 seconds to annoyed when Matthew dont choice to stay with her instead of leaving in the drama Downton Abbey. That is the noble they must keep reserved, sense and decent without hurry and confusion(Zeng Lu2012). What we can learn from British TV-series is to cut the forty sets to ten sets of space. Because out of more than thirty sets, such as Downton story, in Grantham, our director will at least can get eight hours, half set by the count and the dog, performance the three Earl daughters three sets are not too many, the Earl and Countess of emotional expression for example a two set of flashbacks is needed. However, the British drama control is a model of aesthetic criteria for the global television series, and also use control to create the epitaph of British aristocracy. Lady Marry heard the cousin suddenly is engaged to other girls, put in The Grand Mansion Gate, I do not know how many vases could be broken, have to waste a lot of birds-nest. But Downton to Marry there is a few seconds to adjust the emotion. Aristocratic manor, tears and gaffes are the habit of servants, even the most intense lyricism also belong to the servant. Noble are not impromptu sad, never mess way, in a word, no messy. And for a TV audience, the control and thrift is not only for our IQ respect but also praise to our experience. In this side, Downtons writers is really smart. They want us to love the people that must be the most control over the camera man.Zeng Lan(2005) says situation comedies can attract a lot of people because it catch the audiences receptive psychology. At the some time the dramas narrative structure is attractive. 2.3.3 MediumWith the development of Internet and Globalization, people can see thousands of TV-series of different countries. Nowadays, the British TV-series could be seen are mostly on the Internet. There are British TV-series on the main video website of China, such as Sou Hu、Tu Dou、You Ku、PPTV、Qi Yi and so on. Anywhere you can surf the Internet then you could watch the British TV-series both on computer and mobile phone. Zeng lu(2012) believes that subtitle groups is a very important reason of the popular British TV-series. She thinks for subtitle group, choose the repertoire is one of the basic skills, hit series must follow. Under normal circumstances, group members have overseas background, love and understand British culture are needed. koala Zhao Xiaopang a known subtitle group member has been involved in the first season of Downton Abbey translation, “we translate Downton because we found of the previous works