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Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou is seen as the leading

the interpretation is accomplished in communication:

It is a word, phrase, or statement that interprets events in the past, envisions events in the future, or depicts current events that are removed in time and/or space from the actual activities of the group. Fantasy themes tell a story that accounts for the group's experience and that is the reality of the participants (Foss, 290).

Fantasies are dramatic, comprising setting, characters, and actions, each a different sort of theme. Fantasies are also characterized by their artistic and organized quality:

While experience itself is often chaotic and confusing, fantasy themes are organized and artistic. they are designed to create the most credible interpretation of experience or the most comprehensible forms for making sense out of experience (Foss 291).

There are five steps in the procedure of fantasy-theme criticism to discover the world view shared by a community: 1) finding evidence of the sharing of fantasy themes or a rhetorical vision; 2) coding the rhetorical artifact(s) for setting, character, and action themes; 3) construction of the rhetorical vision(s) on the basis of the fantasy themes; 4) naming the motive for the visions identified; and 5) assessment of the group's rhetorical vision.

An analysis of the fantasy-themes in a film such as To Live requires a consideration of the film from the standpoint both of the culture which produced it (China) and the culture in which it is now being judged (the democratic West). Viewer responses are likely to be different in each locale. The reaction of the Chinese leadership, for instance, was to ban the film, which in itself raises questions as to what meaning is being conveyed by the film. It is apparent that the film does not convey the ideology of the current leaders, and their attempts to prevent the film from being shown are consistent with their behavior since the beginning of the Communist era and even...

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