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''Shanghai Cinema''(上海电影), is one of the most important category in China cinema. Shanghai is the cradle of China cinema. Representing a significant portion of Chinese cinema, Shanghai cinema is the root of Chinese-language cinema. In over a century’s history of Chinese cinema, the great achievements in culture made by Shanghai filmmakers achievements contributed tremendously to China’s societal development and historical progress over the past century. == History == There is a predestined relationship between cinema and the city of Shanghai. More than a century ago, across oceans and continents, cinema was brought to Shanghai immediately after its birth. With its advanced industries and modern finance, along with its sophisticated and colorful urban life that featured both East and West, both the traditional and the modern, Shanghai provided cinema the most suitable and rich soil for its growth. Cinema picked Shanghai for its China landing, and Shanghai cultivated the growth of cinema in China. By the early 1930s, Shanghai had accommodated more than 90% of the film industry in China, becoming the largest film center in the Far East and Asia. By that time cinema had transformed from a Western vaudeville act that entertained the audience in teahouses and wine shops to a popular art form that was able to convey people’s everyday emotions and to address real issues in society. Cinema opened a window for China to take a new look at the changed world. Added with light and sound, moving images on the screen mesmerized the audience with sad or happy stories, inscribing the light of modern consciousness onto the minds of the Chinese people. This particular moment also symbolized the maturity of Chinese cinema. Forged by the times and history, cinema had been gradually transformed in China from a light entertaining medium to a cultural power that could bring progressive changes in society. Beginning in the 1940s, Chinese cinema branched out from Shanghai to the three places across the Taiwan straits. Shanghai filmmakers went North, South, and West, passing along the tradition of Shanghai cinema to the cities of Changchun, Beijing, Hong Kong, the island of Taiwan, and even overseas. As a result, Shanghai cinema has nourished a variety of forms and styles in diverse cultures and societies, contributing to the construction of a shared dream of the Chinese nation-state and enriching the collective memory of the Chinese people living in the three places across the Taiwan straits and overseas. Shanghai cinema is the root of Chinese-language cinema. In the second half of the 20th century, China underwent sweeping changes and transformations. Despite this, Shanghai cinema remained to be half of China’s film industry. Its status as the most complete film industry in China, the most comprehensive production base in China, and the most mature and flourishing distribution and exhibition market in China, was never a question. Prior to the beginning of the new century, Shanghai had produced more than 800 feature films, more than 500 animated features, more than 2,000 science and educational films, and more than 1,300 dubbed films. Shanghai-produced films had won more than 600 domestic and international awards, including top world class awards at the Oscars, Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. Embracing the 21st century, guided by the principle of “Developing through Opening-Up and Thriving through Cooperation,” Shanghai cinema is reinvigorating itself to meet the challenges of globalization and marketization, striving to gain the upper hand in building up a complete and state-of-the-art industry base and market base. In recent years, top world-class film companies, such as the Walt Disney Company and DreamWorks Animation, have landed in Shanghai, an indication that Shanghai cinema has been gaining momentum through opening-up and cooperation. The city of Shanghai is once again envisioning itself as a center for Chinese-language cinema and an important stepping stone for Chinese cinema to reach the international market. Time flies like an arrow, but the world still needs cinema. The wheel of time could easily age a person, but after more than a century, cinema still remains young. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shanghai Cinema」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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