As movies and dramas about autism spectrum disorder increase year by year, autism disorder is also changing from the underprivileged to the focus of mainstream social debate research. However, the number of film and drama productions on the subject of autism spectrum disorder is small, the time range is large, the subject of study is incomplete, and the overall analysis is insufficient. Against this background, this paper collected and viewed papers and periodicals related to autism spectrum disorder before 2022 and searched videos of existing autism materials in the United States, China, and Korea in chronological order. In addition, the storytelling analysis method was used as the main research method to analyze the contents of the movie in both narrative and character, and at the same time, the difference and homogeneity of typical autism characters and Asperger characters were used together, and the social background of movies and dramas from different countries was analyzed.
The above research methods are presented in the following order.
First of all, the current status of autism spectrum disorder and the thesis topic are introduced through the research background and goals of Chapter 1. Chapter 2 lists prior research and related works on this topic. Chapter 3 compares the character description and expression patterns between typical autism and Asperger syndrome characters through the type of autism spectrum disorder. Chapter 4 explores the differences and similarities between the story patterns and social and environmental characteristics of 〈Rain Man〉, 〈Ocean Heaven〉, 〈Move to Heaven〉, and 〈Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo〉. Finally, Chapter 5 presents the problems and suggestions of movies and dramas on the subject of autism spectrum disorder, and the author presents the pursuit of imaging aesthetics from the perspective of Asperger disabled people.
Autistic films are a new genre and have an important responsibility to show the artistic value of films and discover the cultural implications of the genre. Against the backdrop of a lack of research data, this paper is a comprehensive and systematic study of the creative characteristics and expressions of movies and dramas on autism spectrum disorder.
The drama 〈Move to Heaven〉 screened in 2021 and the drama 〈Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo〉 screened in 2022 were selected as research subjects and It has the latest timeliness in studying the development status of autism spectrum disorder images. As a Chinese Asperger disabled person living in Korea, I feel the socio-cultural difference between countries, and it is an advantage that AS (Asperger Syndrome) viewers can present their views and advice on videos taken by NT (a person in general mental state, not neurodevelopmental disorder).
It reveals that there is a lack of collection, comparison, and analysis in full because it is difficult to collect and organize research data from the three countries of Korea, China, and the United States on autistic films. Therefore, I will leave practical video research that records a lot of growth experiences of people with autism, and academic research on movies and dramas based on autism spectrum disorders by extracting the realistic meaning of autism groups as video documents, starting from realism.