族群认同与香港电影中的“北佬”形象

Ethnic Identity and "the Northerner" Image in Hong Kong Films

本文借助族群认同理论,对20世纪60至90年代港产片中的"北佬"形象进行文化读解,就自我与他者关系的形成、变化,对香港的身份认同,以及香港对内地的文化想象等一系列问题展开讨论。本文将香港电影对"内地他者"的建构,理解为服从于香港自我认同需要的一种排他性文化策略,在时间和空间两个维度上,这种他者化策略具体展开于香港身份与文化认同的多元性和变异性的"北佬"认知。

Drawing on the theory of ethnic identity, this paper gives a cultural interpretation of 'the Northerner' image in Hong Kong films between 1960s and 1990s, touching upon such issues as the formation of and shift in the relationship between the self and the other, the ethnic identity of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong’s cultural imagination of mainland. The author understands Hong Kong films’ construction of the 'mainland other' as an exclusive cultural strategy in the service of the need for self identity. Making reference to the strategy of othering in particular films, it makes an analysis of the multiplicity and variability the cultural identity of Hong Kong.