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The Modernity of the Shanghai Cinema in 1930s and 1940s

QIAN Nai-rong   

  1. School of Literal Arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

  • Received:2006-12-09 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-07-15 Published:2007-07-15

Abstract: By re-examining 20 films in varying degrees, this essay accounts for the fact that the Shanghai cinema in 1930s and 1940s has a large quantity of excellent films and wellknown stars. Thus it displays a deep modernity of keeping a simultaneous development with the world's advanced culture.

Key words: Shanghai films, modernity, 1930s and 1940s

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