Study Of The Aesthetics Of The Left-wing Film Songs

This article is about the inspection and research of left-wing movie songs in the thirties of the twentieth century.Left-wing movie songs are an integral part of left-wing movie.Its emergence and development are the inevitable development of the movie art, also has made my country's movie music develop, and has laid a basic form of our country movie music.As a literary and artistic form which emphasizes on ideology, left-wing movie songs stanced against imperialism and feudalism, concerned about the national destiny, the future of society, the reality transformation, shouldered the historical mission of national salvation and the enlightenment. At the crossroad of movie and music,in Shanghai, the commercial city environment, left-wing movie songs promote awareness of the revolutionary struggle effectively, achieve the service objectives, and also created a "popular" culture phenomenon. A lot of left-wing movie songs beyonded their carrieres, became a classic music. To build a harmonious aesthetic of contemporary culture, a harmonious society, putting the historical materialism as a theory principle, this article will use the ways such as text analysis, comparative study and the combination of history and argument, make multi-faceted study of left-wing movie songs.I hope that we can bring up the meaning of movie songs again, arouse the music on the great importance of the current domestic movie music, promote co-operation between artists from the film industry and the music, create another brilliant of movie songs, contribute to construction of the aesthetic harmony of contemporary culture, a harmonious society , by deep mining and retrospectiving of culture movement of left-wing movie. This article will make in-depth and detailed analysis and interpretation of the left-wing movie songs from the following parts.The first part will analyse the movement of the left-wing movie and the creation of movie songs from three aspects : generation context of culture movement of left-wing movie, opportunity and the rise of culture movement of left-wing movie, the left-wing movie songs at the crossroad of silent film and sound film. The opening up of shanghai culture, gave the left-wing movies and songs the development of space. "9·18", "1·28" historical events happened, so national salvation and enlightenment became the consensus of the people. Taking this opportunity , the left-wing people promoted a left-wing movie movement, and in historical progress that silent films to sound film, take movie music to its peak.The second part will make an analysis of creative manners and themes of left-wing movie songs. Creative manners are mainly divided into three: the first is creating songs which are relatively independent from the plot and content of movie; the second is making use of the traditional folk music ;the third is creating new movie songs. Subjects of songs also contain three aspects: the first is opposing imperialism and feudalism, just picking up the banner of history; the second is descripting social injustice and suffering, arouse the spirit of struggling; the third is opposing foreign humiliation, calling the whole nation to take part inthe anti-japanese national salvation. The third part will sum up types of subjects of left-wing movie songs. There are four main types :the first is about declining rural and peasant' s suffering livelihood; the second is mirroring the lives of urban society; the third is attention and study of women's issues;the forth is the "crossroads" for intellectuals.The forth part will analyze four aesthetic characteristics of left-wing movie songs , combining with the specific time and song creation. First, the political rationality of ideology atom light; Second , advocacy and edutainment; Third ,authenticity and realism style; Forth, sociality and the spirit of the times.The fifth part will sum up the successful experience of the left-wing movie songs , reflect on its inadequacies which are caused by the time.Understanding history in-depth, analysesing history objectivly, learning the history at the review of history, beyonding history in the development of the time, is the fundamental purpose of historical research, including this paper.