Interaction And Integration Of Film And Literature - Shanghai Cultural Context

The writer discusses the films of Shanghai-style culture and the literature relating to films in this academic thesis.He analyses and researches related theory and creation as well as the relationship between films and literature from the angle of culture.The writer thinks that Shanghai-style culture is a kind of modern and popular literature, which has a background of industrial,commercial and modern city and which was born in the modern and popular society.As the result of mechanical civilization and science and technology, the film is both new pattern art and typical product of industrial culture. The film possesses the feature of popular culture and manifests the feature.By analysing the film creation,cultural demonstration,two-way choices for revolutionary literature and commercial culture and " Shentushi" by Hongshen, the writer promulgates the complex nature, the identity of opposites of Shanghai-style film theory, creation and the relation to literature. He lays bare the main characteristic of Shanghai-style films - the coexist of modernity and tradition, the compatibility of politics and amusement, the combination of art and commerce and the interaction of films and literature, all of which are also the features of Shanghai-style culture. The writer attempts to establish the coordinating relation between history and reality in the similar cultural background, pointing out that Huangjamo's emphasis on film's amusement, Liunaou's seeking pure visual " film's" films, the cooperation between Left-wing films and commercial film companies, Hongshen's changes from noncommerce to commerce and the Yuanyang and Hudia Pai's "promoting the sale " of their works through literary love stories and ethical stories not only had the cultural rationality in those years but also there is much that we can make use of in our films, literary creation and culture construction nowadays.