Follow Tide Of Era,Lead Tide Of Cinema

With its focus on the films produced in 1933 by Mingxing Film Company,the paper explores the works’ categories,emerging trends and their contributing factors.It also includes the discussion about the unique role that the film production of that specific year plays in the establishment of Chinese Cinema Year,as well as the special contributions it made to the film industry of China.The main body contains four chapters.In the first chapter,the films are divided into two major categories,the emerging leftist movies and those addressing traditional family ethics,in accordance with their contents and themes.To further differentiate works of the two categories,more efforts have been made to classify the movies within each category.To be more specific,the former includes works of three kinds,and they are movies dealing with conflicts between peasants and landlords,contradictions between proletariats and capitalists,as well as those depicting the youngsters’ exploration of their future in the era of constant new changes.As for the latter,it covers movies with emphasis on both traditional and modern marital affairs.The second chapter concerns discussion about the new characteristics of the films produced in 1933 by Mingxing Film Company.Some present issues that have never been involved in previous works,such as tragedies caused either by nature or local villagers,and labor conflicts unveiling the dark side of metropolises.Others focus on new themes including anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism.The theme of anti-feudalism is also deepened in the movies of the time.Moreover,the characters of exploited workers,peasants and intellectuals are all altered to a large degree.Instead of being weak and humble,the works and peasants emerged as the driving force for social transformation.The intellectuals,however,aroused from their immersion in delicate words,and joined hands with the proletariats in their commitment to renovating society.The third chapter deals with the contributing factors to the new trends of the films produced in 1933 by Mingxing Film Company.On the one hand,the leftist film-makers offered materials exposing the dark side of society to the company.It is also with the impact of those materials that the company started to shift its attention to reality,class antagonism in particular,and apply the leftist thinking into its production.On the other hand,as a major force of public opinion,film review played an important role in guiding and promoting the production of film companies including Mingxing.The final chapter offers a summary of the contributions Mingxing made to the year of 1933,which is recognized of the Chinese Cinema Year,as well as to the film industry in 1930 s.First of all,Mingxing Film Company sets itself as the leader and a good example in the development of leftist movies.Secondly,it pioneered the introduction of new literature realism into the film industry.Thirdly,the company produced films as self-expression for its attention to the reality and exploration of the nation’s future.Epilogue: a summary of the contributions of Mingxing’s film production in 1933 to the Chinese cinema.