Eternal Image in the Mirror: In Pursuit of Modernity and the Construction of Chinese Ethical Film Melodrama. Issue 1 (1st March 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: He, Chungeng; Wang, Fanghua
• Is Part Of: Asian cinema. Volume 18:Issue 1(2007)
• Page Start: 224
• Page End: 237
• Publication Date: 2007-03-01
• Subjects: Motion pictures -- East Asia -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Southeast Asia -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Periodicals; Asians in motion pictures -- Periodicals; 791.43095
• DOI: 10.1386/ac.18.1.224_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1059-440X

Abstract

The cultural analysis of Chinese film can provide a privileged perspective from which to view modernity because the evolution and development of Chinese film culture has been central to the ways in which Chinese modernity has been pursued and conceptualized, especially in an ideological sense. Chinese film melodrama has provided a platform for the discussion of Chinese history and the value of Chinese modernity. In this way it has reflected the development of Chinese society and culture throughout the 20th Century.