地矿电影:在电影与媒介研究“之间”的垂直思考

Underground Film: Thinking Vertically across the“ and” of Cinema and Media Studies

近年来,在电影和媒介研究领域日益驳杂的发展进程中,产生了一种兼顾纵向与横向思考的研究模式。究其原因,一方面,新一代中青年学者正在对电影和媒介研究的地缘政治进行新的反思,并在方法论、理论以及研究对象的选取方面,寻求有别于经典电影和媒介研究所带有的欧洲中心主义和白人中心主义的新路径。另一方面,媒介研究学者出于对环境、基础设施和物质性的考量,扩展了他们的研究对象,主要表现为对图像分析方法的摒弃,并明确转向纵向的、基础结构性的思维方式。这一趋势所组织和呈现的纵向空间和横向基础结构,对于当代媒介研究的范式而言极其重要。然而,如果研究尺度包罗万象,那么针对某一部电影的分析能够提供什么意义?又应如何面对研究范式的转向?本文将带着上述问题进入到西方电影史中的"地下"空间,并通过精神与视觉、纵向与横向的双重路径,尝试将电影分析、全球化媒介、政治基础设施和教育等诸多议题融会贯通。

In recent years,a research model that takes into account vertical and horizontal thinking has emerged within the ever-more hybrid field of Cinema and Media Studies,which is pushed by the intersection of two powerful forces.On the one hand,a generation of younger and mid-career scholars is reflecting anew on the geopolitics of the field and calling for methodological and theoretical approaches,as well as objects of study,that are less Anglo-and Eurocentric than the canon of Cinema and Media Studies has generally been.On the other hand,media studies scholars have expanded the objects under consideration in a way that demands new thinking about environment,infrastructure,and materiality,often in forms that turn away from image analysis and toward explicitly vertical,infrastructural modes of thought.This vertical space and the often-horizontal infrastructures that it organizes and renders visible have become vitally important to contemporary media paradigms.But what,if anything,does the analysis of individual films have to offer when our scale is planetary or even universal,and how do we move among these shifting scales?I will consider these questions by entering into the subterranean space of the cinematic mine,which mentally and visually moves us along both vertical and horizontal paths into and across the earth’s terrain,and try to think about the intertwining of energy with film analysis,global media and political infrastructures and our pedagogical pasts,presents,and futures,all of which wrap themselves along the vertical axis.