民族文化的想象与再生产——论少数民族题材电影《花腰新娘》与《寻找刘三姐》的文化诉求

Imagination and Reproduction of Ethnic Culture:Cultural Appeal in the Two Ethnic Films of A Bride from Huayao Shangri La and Looking for Liu Sanjie the Singing Fairy

《花腰新娘》与《寻找刘三姐》作为近几年来国内少数民族题材电影发展的代表性作品,吸引了电影界的关注。作为体现少数民族民俗景观的视觉消费文本,其鲜明的文化表征和时代特点为批判性地思考民族文化与电影媒介的关系提供了一种可能。具体来说:影片凭借视觉消费编码策略,使观众在视觉符号的体验中完成了对少数民族生活的想象性建构;通过各种文化记忆形式的串联,实现了对民族文化传统的挖掘、发现和再生产;少数民族区域美学的尝试性建构,也强化了少数民族自身的文化归属感,为应对民族文化认同的危机提供了新思路。

A Bride from Huayao Shangri La and Looking for Liu Sanjie the Singing Fairy,the two recent films concerning ethnic people,have attracted great attention in the film circle.The two films,due to their distinct cultural representation and characteristics of times,have provided the possibility to critically reflect the relationship between ethnic culture and film.In detail,the films have strategically made the audience imagine the ethnic life with their visual consumption,and with the connecting of various cultural memories,the audience have realized the excavating,finding and reproducing of traditional ethnic culture.The tentative construction of regional ethnic aesthetics has strengthened cultural ascription of the ethnic people,and provided a new thought to deal with the crisis of ethnic cultural identity.