Film History and Theory: A Sequel

Author: Li Shaobai
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book is an academic collection on film. Its content includes supplementary outlines for Chinese Film Art, early film studies, the centennial of Chinese cinema, and other thematic research, divided into four sections. The development of Chinese cinema under market conditions is a topic of global attention. The history of Chinese cinema in the first half of the 20th century is not just a direct mirror. The book takes world cinema as its backdrop, approaches the subject from an artistic perspective, and gradually unfolds the layers, offering new statements, explanations, and evaluations of various phenomena and underlying patterns in this period of Chinese film history, especially commercial cinema and the commercial nature of film, differing from previous perspectives. This provides significant reference for the current development of cinema. The book's features include academic insight, extensive historical materials, broad knowledge, and dialectical analysis. This book is an academic collection on film. Its content includes supplementary outlines for Chinese Film Art, early film studies, the centennial of Chinese cinema, and other thematic research, divided into four sections. The development of Chinese cinema under market conditions is a topic of global attention. The history of Chinese cinema in the first half of the 20th century is not just a direct mirror. The book takes world cinema as its backdrop, approaches the subject from an artistic perspective, and gradually unfolds the layers, offering new statements, explanations, and evaluations of various phenomena and underlying patterns in this period of Chinese film history, especially commercial cinema and the commercial nature of film, differing from previous perspectives. This provides significant reference for the current development of cinema. The book's features include academic insight, extensive historical materials, broad knowledge, and dialectical analysis.