The Study Of Chinese Film Criticism Between 1921 And 1931

The film was introduced into China since 1896, the development of the film has gone dormant for a long time. Chinese Film Criticism started because of the special movie film publication <Movie Repository> and <Shadow Play magazine> appeared in 1921. With the rapid deepening of the Chinese national crisis in the 1930 s, the Left-wing film movement has developed more rapidly. However, as to undertake the 1930’s film criticism of the ten years of film criticismits between 1921 and 1931. Its historical position has not been valued by scholars. This paper intends to make a systematic study of the film criticism between 1921 and 1931, to find a new theoretical approach to the interpretation of Chinese Film Criticism.The Chinese Film Criticism between 1921 and 1931 was mainly composed of the subject and object of the film criticism. On the one hand, as the main part of the film criticism, the film audience and the film critics play the role of critics in the modern film criticism. Discover the various problems and deficiencies in the development of the film industry, and inspired the film creators through the film criticism of the film creators inspiration. On the other hand, as the director, actor and screenwriter, who is the object of the film criticism, should properly face and solve the problems in the film criticism. Of course, as the media of film criticism, newspapers and magazines in the modern film criticism of the bearing the double value of information dissemination and preservation of historical data, it provided an important premise for the research of film criticism.The function and value of the Chinese Film Criticism between 1921 and 1931 mainly reflected in the film entertainment criticism, the social criticism of the film, the film’s educational criticism and the film’s artistic criticism, such as the four aspects. The research on the four types and contents of film criticism can not only understand the content and value of modern movies, to understand the social significance of the Chinese Film Criticism. At the same time, the study of film criticism can also make us understand the problems encountered in the film criticism, and find the right solutions to the problems we meet.The value and significance of film criticism lies in the inspiration of the realistic society. In the modern society, as the rapid development of Chinese film market, the problem in the development of the film also gradually highlights. With the rapid development of Chinese film market, combined with the network influence, film criticism affects ordinary people in modern society live in a great extent. It has great significance to study the standardization and development of modern film industry in China during the period of 1921-1931, and it has a great realistic significance in understanding the art of modern film and the excessive entertainment.