Reflections on the concept of national cinema and Chinese film The Dream FactorySince the commercialization of the Chinese film market in 1997, The Dream Factory (1997) directed by Xiaogang,Feng has established itself as the first commercial film in China (mainland China) after years of previously censored propaganda film (this refers to films that were permitted to be shown during the period of the Great Cultural Revolution). This film was significant not only in the sense that it led a serious reflection on the future of Chinese entertainment cinema, but it also created a new genre: the New Year celebration film that rivals Hollywood blockbusters of the same period as a crucial representation of Chinese national cinema. The aim of this study is to explore how The Dream Factory was defined as the term national cinema based on the concept of national cinema developed by Andrew Higson. This study has provided both some reflections on Chinese national cinema and reflections on Higson's concept of national cinema. Previous film studies consider examining national cinema in four terms: economic terms (production: where and by whom these films are made), textual approach. (distribution: what films are about, what films are shown), exhibition/consumption-based approach (what cinema audiences watch) and critique-oriented approach (art is beyond nations), Hinson argued that these approaches are inadequate because they used the concept in a prescriptive rather than descriptive manner, which omitted the description of the actual cinematic experience of popular audiences. (Higson, 1989, p37) Instead, he suggested two methods for identifying a national cinema. The first is to compare and contrast one cinema to another (he also pointed out that there was a paradox behind the first m...... middle of paper ...... a joke about the different ideologies and worldviews of the East and the West. P4 is the scene of Chinese traditional marriage. From these elements, we can see the Chinese identity without comparison with other cinemas ( the role of the state in film production) and these cultural elements, The Dream Factory could rely on its own and not colonized by Hollywood or other blockbusters.ConclusionThis essay briefly presents the model suggested by Andrew Higson on the. concept of national cinema It proposes three methods to examine a specific film and check if it is a national cinema: examine the production, the distribution, the exhibition and the audience, apart from these, Higson suggested two other methods, comparing with other cinema and relating cinema to a certain political, economic and cultural identity of a certain state..