Interactive Narrative Generation of Aesthetics of Violence in Films

Abstract

The aesthetics of violence creates a visual-auditory spectacle in the films and a significant cultural ethos in the postmodern context. The combination of violence and aesthetics in the films creates a sense of paradox, subverting the audience's stereotypes about violence and evoking a new aesthetic experience physically and psychologically. To achieve such complicated aesthetic effects to a new level in the digital era, it is innovative to synthesise the literary theory, aesthetic criticism, cinematic strategies, procedural modelling and creative computation to produce more attractive and experimental stories in the film industry. Computer science facilitates the stylisation of violent films in a narrative, technical and artistic way. The paper will take Freudian psychoanalysis and Kantian aestheticism as the philosophical foundation, present an index system of evaluation and a model to compute the weight of violence and artistic beauty and further measure the effect of aesthetics conveyed by the violence. The application of the model will promote the creativity in the interactive narrative about the aesthetics of violence in films.