A Review On History Of Fantasy Film For Children In Chinese Main Land

The fantasy film for children refers to the fantasy films within the scope of children films, which usually have three types: the myth films, the fairy tale films and the science fiction films. According to its own status of development in history, the fantasy films for children in Chinese Mainland can be divided into four stages. During the seventeen-year-period (1949-1966), fantasy films for children were greatly influenced by the ideology. And there is no fantasy film for children during the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). In the early stage of Chinese policy of Reform and Opening up(1976-1993), the content of a fantasy film for children relies mainly on its function of amusement, the expression of the change of a new society, and people's attention to children. During the late stage of Reform and Opening up (1993- ), fantasy films for children tend to transform into modern fantasy in the manner of imagination, calling out for the regression of humanism in the process of the regression of convention, expressing the ideality of constructing a harmonious socialist society.In the current two types of fantasy films for children, the creativity of the science-fiction film has been gaining rapid advance even in the straitened circumstances, while the fairy tale film shows a kind of restriction in the imagination. Because the adult haven't got a good understanding of children's world, the themes and contents of the fantasy films for children are only limited in a few common fields, without a good combination of other nations' fantasy and our own and also in lack of a global point of view.The creation of a film is a collective activity, so it is not exaggerated for us to judge the fantasy films for children as social collective imagination in a certain period of history. A fantasy film for children can help children to avoid the unbalance of their emotions and sentiments, for it provides with abundance of mental activities and sensibilities. In a word, the fantasy film for children embodies the standard of man's development of freedom and the standard of the freedom of spirit in a society.