History of Chinese Cinema - Volume 1

Author: Cheng Jihua, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 1998-08-01
Features: Film is a comprehensive art. In its successful development, it continuously absorbs the achievements and experiences of various arts such as literature, drama, painting, music, dance, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Film is also a product of the development of science and technology to a certain height. Its high degree of synthesis and the high technical requirements in production determine many characteristics that distinguish film art from other arts. Film is a young art and a rapidly growing art. In a short period of development, it has not only firmly established its position as an art but, as Lenin and Stalin said, has become one of the most important and most popular arts. The historical development of film, though it has its own special laws, ultimately remains a special reflection of class struggle in society. Therefore, it cannot be separated from the fundamental laws of this general historical development. The historical development of world film and the historical development of Chinese film have continuously proven the correctness of Comrade Mao Zedong's Marxist-Leninist conclusion.