Beyond the boundary between China and the West: Changing identities of foreign-registered film theatre companies and film theatre culture in Republican Shanghai
Beyond the boundary between China and the West: Changing identities of foreign-registered film theatre companies and film theatre culture in Republican Shanghai
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超越中西边界：民国上海的外资影院公司身份与影院文化的变迁
DOI：
10.1080/17508061.2015.1004232
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发表时间：
2015
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0.3
通讯作者：
Yoshino Sugawara
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柳本 高秀;柳本 高秀;菅原慶乃;菅原慶乃;菅原慶乃;Yoshino Sugawara
本文以具有代表性的电影院业主为研究对象，重新审视了由中国个人经营但根据外国法律注册的电影院公司。何廷然及其公司。本文从资本主义、民族主义和社会改革三个方面阐述了外国电影院的角色。这些公司的所有者偶尔在中国和外国身份之间转换，以获得各种利益，享受治外法权的各种特权，以及保持对外国分销商无条件寡头垄断的控制。这一策略包括在外国公司协会内宣布整个中国电影业的利益，并对其施加强有力的影响。作为一个外国注册的电影院公司的身份成为抵御外国压力和保护国内电影市场和电影院文化的关键。然而，外国电影院的这些做法既不是简单的资本主义活动，也不是盲目的民族主义;这些公司的许多业主旨在通过建立一种普遍的电影文化来改革社会。
This article re-examines the film theatre companies managed by Chinese individuals but registered under foreign laws, focusing on the representative film theatre owner. He Tingran and his companies. The article elucidates three roles of the foreign-registered film theatre companies: the capitalist, nationalist and social reformer. The owners of these companies occasionally switched between their Chinese and foreign identities to obtain various benefits, enjoying the various privileges of extraterritoriality, as well as maintaining control over the unconditional oligopoly of foreign distributors. This tactic included proclaiming the interests of the entire Chinese film industry within the foreign companies' association, on which they exerted a strong influence. The identity of being a foreign-registered film theatre company became crucial for resisting foreign pressures and protecting the domestic film market and film theatre culture post 1930s. However, these practices by the foreign-registered film theatre companies were not concluded either in terms of simple capitalist activities or blind nationalism; the many owners of those companies aimed to reform society through establishing a universal cinema culture.