The change of the content of film in Chinese cinema is closely related to how the people live and urban culture at that time. The book started the discussions based on the Shanghai cinema. It explores the relationship between the film and social transformation. For example, only the most popular Hollywood movie could be showed in the first-class movie s Chinese films would be shown in lower -class movie houses.This shows the audience had a strong preference for Hollywood and European movies during early 19th century.This international movie-watching habit promoted the development of Shanghai’s film industry and provided the foundation

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