Image Presentation Of Urban Culture

Eileen Chang was an outstanding film critic and play writer in early Chinese film history. She was born in the city, the convenience of viewing environment in city made her acquaintance with aesthetic characteristics of the film. She loved watch and comment on film, she also knew the audience’s aesthetic psychology as a citizens, and thus she began writing movies. Eileen Chang is considered the most important women screenwriters of modern China. Based on her early viewing experience in Shanghai when western film prevailed, she combined Hollywood comedy writing skill with traditional Chinese culture, which lately lead the development of urban comedy movies in China. Film originated from city, and is also the image carrier of urban culture. Eileen Chang’s screenplay adhere to her love for city life as always, faithfully presented the complicated urban culture and its profound contradictions.Eileen Chang’s literary creation started from Shanghai, Shanghai is also the birthplace of Chinese films. Thanks to Shanghai’s more open viewing environment than other cities in China, which enabled Eileen Chang from a fan grew up to be a pioneer of film critic. Her early film comment showed her unique film aesthetic proposition, and then affected her writing artistic features. Eileen Chang’s screenplay experience could be divided into two periods according to geographical space, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Both cities’ urban culture was presented in Eileen Chang ’s screenplay, and her script with its unique way participate in the evolvement of both cities’ urban culture. Eileen Chang created her classic play Love without end and Long live the Mrs. with middle-class citizens for the leading role when she was in Shanghai. Under the mainstream form of national resistance, her creation has some kind of padding effect for Shanghai urban culture, and highlights Shanghai’s urban culture. Under the environment of urban Hong Kong in 1950-60 s and Motion picture & General Investment company’s unique creative ecology, Eileen Chang actively proceeded with her screenplay creation. During the time she stayed in Hong Kong, the screenplays she wrote especially highlight the multiple urban culture in Hong Kong under the background of cultural conflict and integration due to north-south migration.