A Tentative Study on the Modern Construction and Reflection of Chinese Film Concept
理論研究
作者：羅淞譯
Abstract：Chinese film concept is continuously changing and developing and it is closely related to the promotion of social group’ cultural level. As an indispensable element of contemporary cultural undertakings， film culture and film concept are associated with each other by mutual promotion. Thus， to comprehend the film concept is to comprehend the cultural connotation of films. The present thesis gives an analysis into the development history of Chinese films and summaries the major cognitive concepts in Chinese film culture and proposes some scientific suggestions to the construction and reflection of contemporary film concept.
Key words：Chinese films； concept； construction； development
reflection
Along with the increasing development of people’s cultural and ideological level， the development research of film culture has achieved an advanced progress and film concept has formed a more stable theoretical consciousness in the screen culture. It has great influence on contemporary films’ construction to rethink the changing course of Chinese film concept and summarize the core route of Chinese film culture. As the theoretical guidance element of Chinese film industry， ideology has far-reaching influence on the creation and development of films.
1. The development history of Chinese films
Chinese film was born in 1905. Jingtai Ren， the founder of Beijing Fengtai photo studio， filmed Mount Dingjun in which Xinpei Tan starred. This was the first film produced by our Chinese people. Having gone through the earlier stage， the left-wing literature period， the anti-Japanese war period， the liberation war period and the new Chinese time， in order to consolidate Chinese film market’s development position in the world， contemporary film’s ideology construction should take into account the development demand of the screen culture and put forward the feasible ideologies on film and television from the perspective of Chinese-style socialism culture development to provide guiding thinking for the reform and development of Chinese film creation. Therefore， we should proceed from Chinese films’ ideological changing course to comprehensively rethink the contemporary construction model of Chinese films.
2. Major expression forms of Chinese film concept
Chinese traditional culture has profound implication. It extensively permeates in different industries and has become the major impetus of promoting the development of cultural undertakings. Chinese film is an inevitable part of cultural undertakings and film culture has profound influence on citizen’s social thoughts. Therefore， how to set up a correct Chinese film concept is of great guiding function to the civilization construction of social historical culture. Reviewing Chinese films’ development history， we can summarize Chinese film concept’s main characteristics as below：
a. Realism
Films are the creative achievements derived from the real life. Any film must rely on the real social practice to create works that conform to the characteristics of film and television culture. For a long time， Chinese films have insisted on developing the realism road of reform and resolutely implemented double-hundred guiding principle， which enable films to have a wide range of topics and reflect all kinds of conflicts in life to a certain depth and breadth. For example， films like Legend of Tianyun Mountain， Man of a Certain Age， Rickshaw Boy， etc. are all the good models of realistic thoughts.