After reading Leo’s “The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema” and several reflection, I have gained few insights about Chinese film culture. Leo’s work explored different aspects about Chinese film culture including film audience, film culture and narrative conventions. Actually, the ideas in the film is really vogue and difficult to understand if we are not situating in that background. Although the reading is difficult to understand, I am thankful to the reading that it offered me a glimpse into the film culture of Shanghai in 1930s which is precious and hard to be seen in our daily life. According to the historical background, Shanghai was strongly influenced by the foreign culture which is came from Italy, France… This created a special fusion of culture that time and it definitely leads to the current status of film culure.
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I am glad that you enjoy and have got inspiration from this reading. I would like to hear your more specific reflection, like How does Leo explore “film audience, film culture, and narrative conventions?” Which is the issue you are interested in? What is the “film culture of Shanghai in the 1930s” revealed by this essay? What does the “current status of film culture” refer to? Instead of the “skeleton,” I would prefer to hear the “meat” of your discussion.