从“大众文化”到“媒介文化”:精英主义式微?

From 'Mass Culture' to 'Medium Culture': a Decline of Elitism?

从利维斯到威廉斯、霍尔、费斯克,英国文化研究发生了深刻的变化。其中威廉斯对“文化”这一关键词的重新阐释,一方面,把文化的观念从体制化的传统封闭中解放出来,赋予其以鲜活而复杂的思想和体验;另一方面也表征着他们对传统精英主义文化立场的消解。受之影响,我国学界10多年来的文化研究也走过了从“大众文化”到“媒介文化”的转变。分析这一转向,不仅有助于我们认清问题,而且对推进我国当代文化研究的进一步深入也有着积极的意义。

From Levis to Williams, Hall and Fiske, great changes took place in the study of British culture. Williams explained the key word ＇culture＇ again. On the one hand, he freed the concept of culture from traditional systematized enclosed state, adding to new and complex ideas and experience, on the other hand, they meant to clear up the culture of elitism. Under their influence, for more than ten years, the study of culture in China underwent the change from ＇mass culture＇ to ＇medium culture＇. Analyzing this change helps us get a clear understanding of problems. And it plays an important role in promoting the further study of Chinese modern culture.