Hollywood Under The Influence Of Early Song Lp

Film, as one of the late-model culture modality, is the production of modern industry culture. It represents characters of the popular culture. And the major characteristic of popular culture is the numerous embracers. As to a commercial film, one of the most important problems it faces is how to obtain audience at the most.Early Chinese films, take singing films as its example, had been built under the circumstance where Hollywood films holding the market. So it firstly is a kind of unprompted commercial rival-ship. Early Chinese singing films, based on Hollywood musical films, bring traditional Chinese mentality and spirit in itself. Thus, they are on speaking terms with Chinese culture. Zhou Xuan, as one of the foremost movie stars of early Chinese singing filmdom, represents the major achievement of early Chinese singing film. Zhou Xuan's singing film not only develops itself by learning from Hollywood's musical films, but also becomes one of the important weapons to compete with them. Its experience of success has practical significance to today's film industry.The body of this paper is divided into two parts. In the first chapter, it analyzes how the early Chinese film creators, who has learned from Hollywood musical films, relies on traditional culture and develops a kind of successful film type. In the next chapter, it mainly concerns the pursuing beyond commerce of Chinese early singing film.