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Chinese cinema is still the big unwritten chapter in world film industry. The gap is surprising, if only because so many other f

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问题     Chinese cinema is still the big unwritten chapter in world film industry. The gap is surprising, if only because so many other facets of twentieth-century Chinese history, culture and politics have been extensively analyzed. The past ten years, however, have seen a significant growth of interest in Chinese films—both in China and farther afield. The China Film Archive, forced to close by Red Guards in 1966, resumed its activities in 1978; it has now recatalogued its collection and begun facing up to the massive task of copying its large holdings of old prints on to safety-film stock. Two years ago, it organized a special season of pre-1949 films for internal circulation to film professionals on the country’s leading production centers. This gave many of the younger film-makers their first glimpses of work done in the 1930s and 1940s. Later films, banned since the "anti-rightist purge" of 1957, have also begun to reappear on China’s screens.
    The western discovery of China’s film heritage began at London’s National Film Theatre in 1980, with a 25-film season called "Electric Shadows". Several classics had their first screenings outside China at this event, which established two important points. First, that the Shanghai film industry of the 1930s and 1940s produced works of international standing. Second, that the films of the People’s Republic, while hardly as remarkable as their predecessors, did offer much more than celebrations of successful works in the countryside and military field.
    The London initiative was quickly copied in a dozen or more cities, from Sydney to Turin, with the result that Chinese cinema has found a place on the map that it did not have in 1980. The decades of neglect and ignorance, however, have forced all such events to take the form of broad, general surveys, which has not helped the discovery of individual talents.
    London has now picked up the baton again with a second, larger season, to be held at the National Film Theatre throughout January and February. It is called, inevitably, "More Electric Shadows". Unlike the first season, this has been organized with the co-operation of the China Film Archive; the result is a program more or less evenly balanced between pre-1949 and post-1949 titles. It offers more 1930s films than have previously been seen outside China at one time and includes a number of western premieres.
Questions:
The London season of 1980 showed that Chinese films of the People’s Republic era______.
选项 A、could rank among international film classics
B、were better than many Western films of the same era
C、were remarkably inferior to the Shanghai 1930s and 1940s productions
D、dealt mainly with agricultural and military themes
答案D
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