Movie Reviews in Early Post-war Period of Taiwan: A Study of Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News (1946-1950)

• Main Authors: Hao-Wei Yang, 楊浩偉
• Other Authors: 黃美娥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yzz58a

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 105 === 　　This presenting thesis investigates the movie-related materials on Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News, the biggest newspaper and the first government-run printing media in the early post-war period in Taiwan. By analyzing the features, reviews and critical essays of films appearing in Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News, this research aims at investigating the development of the film culture and movie reviews in Taiwan at the time. 　　The analysis is divided into three different parts. First, movie reviews on Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News were written according to the national policy, and thus continuously shaped the movies as propagandist tools. In the next place, these reviewers also wrote many features introducing knowledge about films, by either translating information from America or sharing practical experiences. In these articles, they import Hollywood culture, films technology, and the history and development of film art, but they at the same time introduce Chinese and Western movie stars in different manners: the former was views as moral models, while the latter was merely treated as the cash cow for the newspaper sales. Last but not the least, by reading the film reviews on Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News thoroughly, readers can see the aesthetic standard regarding films at the time. No matter where the movie was produced, the film critics evaluated movies in terms of its presentation of reality and educational meaning. Among the critics, Bai Ke, Yin Lu and Ge Ding are the three most active and renowned. 　　In short, the movie critics on Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News in the early-post war period not only comply the governmental policy, aided the newspaper business by raising social concerns, but also shared with the public all kinds of the filmic knowledge and theirs insight on movies. This thesis aims at showing the importance of these review/ers in the history of Taiwanese films and the development of movie reviews in Taiwan, providing an alternative aspect of the Taiwanese films of the early post-war period.