The First Wave: Chinese Film Music in the 1930s

摘要

Chinese cinema experienced a new epoch from 1932 to 1937: known as the left wing cinematic period. Almost a hundred films came into being during this period, which took on the instructive meaning of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism. This paper highlights the experience of Chinese film music in Shanghai left-wing cinema; Chinese film music as the national arts movement in the 1930s. This paper also takes Street Angel (1937) as a case to explore how Chinese film music technology and characteristics were developed in the 1930s.