都市文化再造:从城市爱情到都市欲望的都市言情剧

Reconstruction of Urban Culture:Urban Romance Dramas from City Love to Urban Desire

关于城市爱情的电视剧在市场化之后大致经历了两个阶段,一是大约1992年之前的城市俗世爱情及市民生活的回归,一是90年代中期至今迅速转向都市爱情神话及欲望都市、消费都市的大力展示。后一阶段中爱情逐渐与各种欲望紧密地纠缠在一起,主角大多由普通市民转为城市白领或中产。这种关于都市的想象与文化再造,不仅强化了传媒的城市中心主义与消费主义价值观,而且也再造了社会关系,并一定程度地影响和破坏了都市文化的多元性及公共性。

There are two stages that TV dramas of city love have had. One is the period prior to 1992 which was the return of earthly love and the citizen life. The second stage is from the middle of the 1990 s to the present that has been the substantial show of urban love myth as well as desires and the consumption. As the latter stage,romance dramas gradually entangle with various desires,and the protagonists are mostly urban white-collar or middle class rather than ordinary people. This kind of urban imagination and cultural reconstruction not only strengthen the city centrism and consumerism values,but also reconstruct the social relations. In a certain extent,this media imagination and cultural reconstruction have been influencing and damaging the pluralism and the publicity of urban culture.