Hollywood Movie and China in 1930'

• Main Authors: Wung, Chiaoyen, 翁巧嫣
• Other Authors: Lee, Chiuchun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37097264412059200846

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 歷史學系 === 99 === Hollywood movies reached its peak in 1930s`. With the increase of American national power which affected around the modern world during twenty century, Hollywood movies went into the whole world easily and spread American ideology to everywhere. However, people in other countries didn’t always accept Hollywood movies without resistance. As the cultural representation, American films in different social contexts might be translated into other ways. The same situation happened when Hollywood movies went into China, especially in Shanghai. Though the films became popular in the city soon, the audience still judged them with their own values. Therefore, this study focuses on the impact of Hollywood movies on China and the China’s response to those films in 1930s`. The article includes three sections. The first section depicts the early period of Hollywood movies first arrival in 1920s`. In this part, I will describe two things. One is how the American films occupied the Shanghai film market; another one is taking “the Father of American movie” –David Wark Griffith(1875-1948) for example. I’ll discuss how Chinese people “see” American films through Griffith’s works. The second section will analyze Shen Bao(申報) and movie magazines. I will try to rebuild the construction which Hollywood movies circulated, and the way that Hollywood movies expanded in Shanghai film market. The final section will discuss about how three kinds of ideologies in China– nationalism, leftwing commentary and liberalism judged Hollywood movies. As we can imagine, each of three ideologies had it own way to interpret films, but each of them all represented the faces of multi-modernity of China. In sum, this research shows that even China couldn’t resist the invasion of American culture of Hollywood movies, she kept the national mobility however