EAST 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fei Mu, Sponsored Film, Xinhai Revolution
15 May 2018
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Lecture 6
February 13, 2018
8:38 AM
During the 1930's; the golden age, cinema was legislated from the top and guided
by government policy. It's not a new thing to control cinema via national policy
but the form it takes in this period is different
During the 17 years:
There was an effort to have film distribution that moves into the country side.
There was finally an industry that could support colour and sound production.
Red detachment of women was government sponsored has a high production
value, good set, makeup effects and the colors are great.
Mid 1960's:
Films were hard to make because there were short falls of resources and resource
distribution.
A lot of movies made during the cultural revolution were filmed ballets and
operas.
The theatre was suddenly restricted and resulted in many fewer films being
made.
So many people had moved to Hong Kong from shanghai after the invasion of
Japan, but people didn't always think of themselves as exiles.
"Spring in a small town" was made with an unfinished script that Fei Mu cut up, it
was an excuse to use a studio that was lying empty and not being used. The actors
were theatre actors in 'New Theatre' as opposed to the 'Old Theatre'
Fei Mu told the lead actress to "control her inflamed emotions" while shooting
the film, Fei Mu was not just a director of the film but of the actors as well. It was
through indirection that the feeling of over whelming emotions in the film was
controlled; this is realism in a memetic sense. In a semiotic sense, we see
someone control their emotions on screen.
During the change of climate in post revolutionary China; Fei Mu's style of
direction had an aesthetic understanding of the relationship between cinema and
its object but it was deemed soft. Soft film making has to do with a plastic idea of
what the essence of cinema is and making the story ambiguously open to
interpretation.
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Document Summary
During the 1930"s; the golden age, cinema was legislated from the top and guided by government policy. It"s not a new thing to control cinema via national policy but the form it takes in this period is different. There was an effort to have film distribution that moves into the country side. There was finally an industry that could support colour and sound production. Red detachment of women was government sponsored has a high production value, good set, makeup effects and the colors are great. Films were hard to make because there were short falls of resources and resource distribution. A lot of movies made during the cultural revolution were filmed ballets and operas. The theatre was suddenly restricted and resulted in many fewer films being made. So many people had moved to hong kong from shanghai after the invasion of. Japan, but people didn"t always think of themselves as exiles.
