The film plays of Hong Shen's Left-wing period had achieved a transformation from family ethics to national and ethnic sentiments.Their expression adopts poetic realism,and the text presents a changing scene of broken mountains and rivers,family rise and fall,and personnel vicissitudes,implying a call and expectation for the main force of the new era.The poetic realism in Hong Shen's left-wing film plays can naturally extend to the issue of realism in left-wing films.The realism in Chinese left-wing films not only differs greatly from the realism in contemporary Hollywood and European films,but also differs from the realism in left-wing film plays.Even as left-wing playwrights,there are significant differences in the realism style in their plays.Starting from this,we can examine further the realism issues in Chinese left-wing films in 1930s.
Hongshenleft-wing film playsfamily and national feelingspoetic realismnationalism