跨越世纪的追捧与焦虑——1920年代与当下国人对好莱坞电影的两极化观照

Pursuit and Anxiety across Centuries: The 1920s and Contemporary Chinese Bipolar Views on Hollywood Movies

1920年代,美国电影大量进入中国,主要盛行的有侦探长片、滑稽片和爱情片。美片风行引起中国民族资产阶级知识分子的关注,但是这种关注呈现出两极化态势。一种是以积极正面的态度来看待美国电影,从表达技巧和思想内容上给与很高的评价,并视美国电影为教科书。一种是站在民族独立和文化独立的立场上,给与美国电影以冷静的批判,认为美片内容上对社会有危害,并会对中国的文化和经济带来双重的侵略。当下,这种两极化观照依然构成中国人对好莱坞电影的基本认知。

In the 1920s, a large number of American films flooded into China, such as detective, spoof and romance movies. Popularity of the U.S. movies drew the Chinese national bourgeoisie intellectuals＇ attention, showing a bipolar trend. One is a positive attitude towards American movies, giving a high appraisal to presentation skills and ideological content and regarding American movies as textbooks. The other is the national independence and cultural independence stance, giving strict criticism of American movies and considering the U.S. movies＇ content harmful to the society and a double aggression against China＇s culture and economy. At present, they still constitute the Chinese people＇ s basic cognition about Hollywood movies.