![]() They sell the following Classic Chinese filsm: “Spring In A Small Town”, “The Big Road”, “Queen Of Sports”, “Street Angel”, “Twin Sisters”, “Crossroads”, “Daybreak Song At Midnight”, “The Spring River Flows East”, “Romance Of The Western Chamber”, “Princess Iron Fan”, “A Spray Of Plum Blossoms”, “Two Stars In The Milky Way”, “Empress Wu Zeitan”, “Dream Of The Red Chamber”, “An Orphan On The Streets”, “The Watch Myriad Of Lights”, “Along The Sungari River” “Shanghai Old and New” is also available on the Internet Archive at The best place to get English-subtitled films from the Republican era is Cinema Epoch. Wu Yonggang)is available on the Internet Archive at /details/thegoddess. Websites: Chinese Film Classics Senses of Cinema 100 Films to Understand China. MARTIAL ARTS FILMS: WUXIA, RUN RUN SHAW AND KUNG FU MOVIES īRUCE LEE: HIS LIFE, LEGACY, KUNG FU STYLE AND FILMS RECENT HISTORY OF CHINESE FILM (1976 TO PRESENT) And full frontal male nudity.", Rea wrote on book on the subject - “Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949" (Columbia University Press, 1921) - and made the films featured in the book available via the YouTube channel Modern Chinese Cultural Studies and the website .įAMOUS ACTRESSES IN THE EARLY DAYS OF CHINESE FILM ĬULTURAL REVOLUTION FILM AND BOOKS - MADE ABOUT IT AND DURING IT ![]() According to Christopher Rea, a professor at the University of British Columbia, in the 1930s and 40s, Chinese cinema had light sabers. [Source: Reviewed by Jean Ma, Stanford University, Jean Ma, MCLC Resource Center Publication, February, 2016 Book: “Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945" by Weihong Bao (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).ĭominant film types were emotional dramas in the 1930s and war movies in the 1940s. Bao navigates a stunningly expansive territory as she delineates these assemblages and uncovers the connections among the beginnings of the martial arts film, symbolist poetry, physics, and Bergsonian philosophy among theories of acting, hypnotism, and early televisual technology among early sound films, glass architecture, and theories of montage among education, propaganda, and wireless technology. “Not only did its identity undergo a continuous refraction as an art form of entertainment, instrument of communication, scientific object, sensory-bodily prosthesis, and political weapon as part of a larger ensemble of new technologies, cinema also stood at the center of an intense interrogation of the very concept of medium in modern China. In a review of the book “Fiery Cinema” on film in China from 1915 to 1945, Jean Ma wrote: “Bao demonstrates, cinema itself was a moving target” at that time. Films on social issues courageously exposed the most grim and pressing problems confronting Chinese society. Most of the works on family ethics drew material from the life of urban residents in the lower social strata or the petty bourgeoisie and showed love affairs, marriages, affairs concerning ethics, or household affairs. Family ethics and social issues were in vogue mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. Eventually, China became strong enough to develop its own national cinema. Among the handful of classics from this period are Cai Chusheng’s “Spring River Flows Eastward” (1947), She Yu’s “Light of a Million Hopes” (1948) and Chen Baichan’s “Crow and Sparrow” (1949).ĭuring the 43 years from 1905 to 1948, China progressed from showing only foreign-made films to shooting its own and from using foreign funds to filming independently. Many “blue” movies and horror films were made. The film scene in the 1940s was more chaotic and fractured. Memorable films from this dark genre included Xia Yan’s “Torrents” (1933) Yuam Muzhi’s “Street Angel” (1937) and She Xiling’s “Crossroad” (1937). The first Chinese-made film “Conquering Jun Mountain”, was made and shown in 1905.During the 1930s the leftist film making movement was active. The first film was shown in Shanghai in 1896, a year after the first film was shown in Paris by the Lumiere brothers. In the 1930s and 1940s, several socially and politically important films were produced. During the 1920s film technicians from the United States trained Chinese technicians in Shanghai, an early filmmaking center, and American influence continued to be felt there for the next two decades. ![]() Spring in a Small Town Motion pictures were introduced to China in 1896, but the film industry was not started until 1917.
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