Abstract
Threatened by the thriving leftwing film industry, the Nationalist Party became more conservative. They set up the Central Film Censorship Committee as an important link in the system of film censorship, further tightening the control over film production. It was a substitute for the former Film Censorship Committee under the Ministries of Education and Interior. The committee achieved its original goals, but the result of its work did not fully conform to the party’s initial expectations.
摘要
中央电影检查委员会的成立, 是国民党电影检查制度在左翼电影勃兴的现实威胁下更趋保守的反映, 也是国民党电影检查制度形成并完善的重要环节, 进一步强化了国民党对电影的集中管理与控制。 中央电影检查委员会的工作, 既有对前教育、 内政部电影检查委员会工作的继承性, 也有其自身的拓展性。 就国民党创设初衷而言, 中央电影检查委员会的工作自有其成效, 但又不完全似国民党当初之预期。
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Translated by Zhou Weiwei from Lishi Yanjiu 历史研究 (Historical Research), 2006, (2): 62–78
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Wang, C. The politics of filmmaking: An investigation of the Central Film Censorship Committee in the mid-1930s. Front. Hist. China 2, 416–444 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11462-007-0022-8
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