Abstract:

Retrospect, Survey and Prospect
——A Reflection of the Study of the Chinese Film Genre(School of FilmTelevision Art and Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China)Abstract： The study of the Chinese film genre has a close relation to the development of China' s society. While the transformation of cultural context in society determines the success or failure of the study of the Chinese film genre, the diversification and diversion of the study of the Chinese film genre often reflect on the transformation of cultural context in society. In a period of about 100 years, the study of the Chinese film genre has already obtained an obvious development: (1) changing from utility or practicality to academic or specialization; (2) changing from focus on education function to stress on amusement function; (3) changing from copying Western genre theories to research for national film genres. At the same time, China' s concrete development history of the study of the Chinese film genre also determines its problems and challenges faced in the future. First, at the present, the further development of the study of the Chinese film genre is meeting with a big bottleneck of the shortage of the native theory of film genre. Secondly, one of the urgent problems solved currently is how to localize the theory of the Western film genre. Thirdly, the study of the Chinese film genre must attach an importance to some common topics appearing in the study of the world film genre, and, from a global perspective, takes China' s study of film genre as a part of the world's study of film genre so as to make its own contribution.

Key words: film, genre study, retrospect, survey, prospect