Sea Dreams

Author: Fang Mingguang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is divided into three parts, with detailed contents as follows: Part 1: Film Matters – Shanghai’s Arrival of “Foreign Films,” Chinese Film Companies, Once Upon a Time, “Returnee”-Founded Film Companies, Star Film Studio’s Establishment, Sino-foreign Jointly Run Film Schools, Early Film Industry’s Market Financing, Early Film Photography, From Scratch to Film Projection, Far East’s First Grand Cinema, Stock Film Shooting Fervor, China’s “First Sounds,” From Silent to Sound, Three Film Trends During the “Island” Period, Wan Brothers and Animation, Old-Time Fan Culture, Lu Xun and Film, Scanning Shanghai’s Early Film Journals; Second Part: Film Figures – First Film Star, Three Fallen Stars, “Four Greatresses,” Film Kings and Film Queens of the Time; Third Part: Film Works – China’s First Narrative Film, Mythological Films, Historical-Wuxia Films, Two of Left-Wing Film, “New Women” Incident, Early Appearance of “March of the Volunteers,” First International Award-Winning Film, Midnight Horror Talk, Fruit of Realist Film, Comedy Films’ Comedic Journey, Longest-Running Continuous Screenings, Pioneering Dubbing Films, Afterword.