The"Hitchcock Spirit"in Postwar Chinese Language Films
The film Suspicion,produced by the No.3 CLP Film Studio in Peking in 1948,was a direct re-sponse to Hitchcock's Suspicion,which had been released in Shanghai during the Anti-Japanese War,and com-pleted the expression of collective anxiety in response to the war era through the transformation of the power rela-tions of the characters in the script.Along with the Cantonese films The Rear Window and The Night of the Spirit's Return produced in Hong Kong,China in the 1950s and 1960s and adapted from Hitchcock's films The Rear Win-dow and Vertigo,they have together formed a clear thread of Chinese films borrowing ideas or concepts from Hitch-cock's works.The three films,including Xu Changlin's version of Suspicion,Hong Kong's version of The Rear Win-dow and The Night of the Spirit's Return,though without any explicit announcement of their reliance on or borrowing from the original Western films,they have coincidentally embarked on a completely different"detective"path from traditional Chinese detective films or films with detective contents.These three detective films have not only inher-ited the commercial characteristics of related genres,but also responded to the changing social,political and eco-nomic landscape of the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong in the mid-20th century through specific adaptations geared to the specific situation,thereby having formed the concept of the unique interest in film creation of"imitat-ing the author to express ambitions"or"deconstructing the author to express ambitions".At the same time,the"ethical"tendency of narrative strategies in these films has directly led to the re-deconstruction of the"deconstruc-tive nature"of Hitchcock's films in the Hollywood industry,thus constituting a film text translation feature that not only conforms to the mainstream audience of Chinese language films in different eras,but also reflects the creator's own exploration of the"film itself".
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