The Development of Chinese and Foreign Literary Films – Comparison between China and foreign countries

Tan Kah Kee College, Xiamen University, 361005 Xiamen, China

^* Corresponding author: cody.zhao@warwick.ac.uk

Abstract

Chinese literary film is a new way of expressing Chinese native culture, inheriting and carrying forward Chinese humanistic feelings in a new form. Since 1948, Chinese literary films have experienced the development, decline and recovery of literary films, and now it is the golden stage of recovery of literary films. The new generation of directors urgently needs to learn from the successful development experience of foreign literary films, add Chinese thinking and Chinese thinking on the basis of the complete foreign art film industry chain, and build Chinese literary films into a new business card of Chinese culture in the 21st century. This article reviews the development history of art films in China, compares it with that of foreign art films, and analyzes the way out suitable for the recovery of Chinese art films by drawing on the successful experience of the development of foreign Nordic art films. Try a new way to help Chinese literary films attract more viewers at home and enter the international stage. With film as the seventh art as the carrier, this paper has stepped out of the new route to carry forward the charm of traditional Chinese culture, created China’s own good films.