A Review Of The Theories On Chinese Films Since 1990s

Ever since 1990s, China has undergone a profound reformation concerning politics, economy, culture and other fields of society. Especially, the reformation gave birth to the consolidation of the mainstream culture rooted in socialism, and it helped to bring about multiculturalism in China. Consequently, this has contributed to the uniqueness of contemporary film industry in China, and it has facilitated the flowering of Chinese film industry. With the cosmopolitan background looming so large after 1990s, it is urgent that Chinese film industry should grope its way to a success of Chinese style. In 1980s, Chinese film industry was fed on Chinese aesthetics while contemporarily it is an unstoppable tendency to incorporate the films of Chinese feature into the world industry. Besides, with the promotion of the market since 1990s, Chinese film industry has been reoriented hopefully towards manufacturing films of Chinese feature.Seeing the history of Chinese film industry since 1990, the thesis adopts a culture-ecological perspective to study the current living condition of Chinese film industry as well as the overall properties of Chinese films. It attempts to have a close study of the sources which contributes these features of Chinese films. The thesis claims that Chinese film industry finds its spirit in culture-ecology, and it is reasonable to adopt a culture-ecological perspective to explore the regularity of developing Chinese film industry.The thesis starts with a brief review of the Chinese film theories, the relevant concepts and their evolution, and it proceeds to trace the history of the development of Chinese film industry since 1990s. It ends up with a series of discussions on such topics as the outlook of the mass, the future of Chinese films and the like.As discussed in the thesis, the current theories inherited the merits and vigor of those in 19980s, but they are still of piecemeal fashion. It is imperative that we gather and piece together the relevant theories to reconstruct a theoretical framework of Chinese films. During the process, we not only need to redefine the film theories of a nation and introduce them into a Chinese framework, but also need to take into consideration of different factors influencing on Chinese filmsPrimarily, form a cultural and geographical perspective we need to harmonize the relationship between films of a nation and cosmopolitan films. As a rule, films of a nation serve as the basis of cosmopolitan films whilst the latter is a driving force to facilitate the development of the former since 1990s.Secondly, in absorbing freshness of foreign films, we need more self-reliance and self-confidence to exploit the cultural legacy of Chinese films so as to construct the systems of Chinese film industry.Thirdly, in learning the fact that Chinese film industry features a standpoint of the mass in China, it is a necessity that we should produce more classic work tailored to the taste of the majority of the people.Fourthly, with the modernization of Chinese film industry, we need to promote the productivity of the industry to create more films of Chinese features, which meets the international standard in the field.In all, to develop films of Chinese features we need to build an industry on the standpoint of the mass, and meanwhile we need to commercialize and internationalize the film production as well. In this way, we could construct the film industry of Chinese features to cater to the aesthetic need of Chinese people.