Ghost Under the Green Light: Thematic Analysis of Yao Feng Pan's Horror Films

• Main Authors: Wu, Yi-Chun, 吳奕均
• Other Authors: Chen, Ru-Xiu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/549b33

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 傳播學院傳播碩士學位學程 === 106 === Taiwanese director Yao Feng Pan, who was active in the 1970s, established a solid status for horror movies and won the title of “king of ghost films.” The image of female ghosts he created has a strong personal style, and also shaped the imagine of ghosts in Taiwanese society at that time. However, There is still no special thesis for Yao Feng Pan’s horror films. In this study, 21 Yao Feng Pan's horror movies are sampled. From the horror symbol and character design, the metaphor of castration anxiety is discussed. Through mise-en-scene and plot arrangement, the animism viewpoint is expressed. And then, explain how it established the uncanny horror style with human defamiliarization effects. According to the study findings, Yao Feng Pan was in a dilemma between "Empathizing woman" and "Misogyny" during his creation ; Yao Feng Pan's horror films showed the "Humanism"; and brought the audience an horror of "cognitive ambiguity."