电影与近代中国城市市民生活的变化

电影作为近代科学技术和表演艺术相结合的新型艺术形式和文化形态,在19世纪末随"西俗东渐"之潮流传到中国,引起了近代城市人的极大好奇与兴趣,并且很快就与中国社会和文化联系在一起,成为城市人文化生活的重要内容和方式之一.电影极大地影响着近代中国城市人的思想和生活,改变着他们的价值观念、文化心态和生活方式,塑造着城市现代人的性格特征,促使近代城市人由传统人向现代人的转变,从而推动了城市的现代化进程.

Movie and the Changes of People's Life in Modern Chinese Cities

As a new type of art and culture, which is a combination of modern science and technologe with performing art, movie was introduced into China with the trend of " Western Customs Penetrating into the Orient" in the late of the 19th century. It aroused modern citizens' great curiosity and interest and was soon associated with Chinese society and culture. In this way, it has become one of the most important contents and ways of modern citizens' cultural life. Movie has greatly affected modern Chinese citizens' thought and life, has changed their outlooks on value, their attitudes to culture and life style and has shaped their characteristics. It has also transformed the modern citizens from traditional people into modern ones and thus promoted the progress of urban modernization.