Reading Response: Zhen Zhang
This article mainly discussed China’s early film history that has long been neglected until recent decades. It managed to analyse the intricate relationships between theatre and Film in the 1930s China, and in Labor’s Love how “filming” serves as a mean to exhibit theatre (“YingXi”), on the other hand emerging as an end (“DianYing”) of storytelling. A very interesting point was that the director named the leading character — a bricoleur by his own name, and according to the author this carried his sense of craftmanship in filmmaking. At the end of the article, the author wrote: “The brevity of