中国电影的现代性问题:历史回顾与现状审视

Modernity Issues of Chinese Films: A Survey

20世纪70年代末以来,从电影语言的新旧之辨到对谢晋电影的批判,从对第五代 探索影片的评价到对中国电影创新之路的争辩,中国电影的现代转型历程一直伴随着现代影像 美学与传统戏剧美学,现代文化意识与民族文化传统的关系之争。与此同时,中国电影创作逐步 形成重影像轻叙事重电影意识轻文化意识的风气,新世纪初一些理论话语开始对现代性转型偏 颇进行反思。在梳理这一中国电影现代性问题史的基础上,分析中国电影转型历程中矫枉过正 的真正原因,指出文化意识的现代性建构是中国电影尚未完成的任务,现代性仍将是中国电影文 化发展的主要方向。

Since the late 1970s, Chinese films in its modernity transformation have witnessed disputes of various kinds, concerning the relation of modern film image aesthetics with the traditional dramatic aesthetics and that of modern cultural consciousness with national cultural tradition. These disputes include the differentiations of old and new film languages, criticism of XIE Jin films, evaluation of the fifth explorative films and the ways out for Chinese film innovation. Meanwhile, Chinese film creations have gradually formed the trend of paying much attention to filmic images but less to narration and much to filmic consciousness but less to cultural awareness. Then at the beginning of the new century some theoretical discourses appear to reflect upon the aberrations in the transformation. The author through the survey figures out the true reasons why hypercorrections have taken place and points out the tasks that Chinese films have not yet fulfilled in the modernity construction of the cultural awareness, where modernity is still the direction that Chinese film culture should keep following.