大众文化快乐的政治化及其缺憾

Politicization of Pleasure in Mass Culture and Its Discontent

20世纪80年代之后,"快乐"已经成为西方理论界研究大众文化的一个重要概念。文化批判理论、文化民粹主义和女性主义是大众文化快乐研究领域三个最富影响力的理论派别,这三个不同的理论派别均遵循着一个共同的研究范式:将大众文化的快乐政治化。这表现在将大众文化快乐的价值定位在政治层面,将快乐置于解码者所处的政治语境中加以解析,将快乐产生的原因解释为与某些政治因素相关联等三个层层推进的方面。大众文化快乐的政治化研究范式有一个缺憾不容忽视,即大众文化自身的文化价值一直没得到系统性的研究。

For many western scholars,pleasure has become a key word in studying mass culture after 1980' s.The present paper summarizes the main points of three most influential theories in cultural pleasure study:critical theory,cultural popularism and feminism,proposing that these three theories abide by the same paradigm, that is,to politicize the pleasure of mass culture.The paradigm,as the paper asserts,hierarchically shows as locating the value of pleasure in mass culture at political level,analyzing pleasure in the political context of the decoders,and ascribing pleasure to some political factors.The paper furthermore points out the discontent in the paradigm of politicization;the absence of systematic study on the cultural value of mass culture itself.