都市现代性的五副面孔:出租车司机掠“影”

Five Faces of Urban Modernity: A Review of Taxi Drivers' Cinematic Representations

在城市电影中,出租车司机构成了重要的一类银幕形象谱系,其多元化、多层面、多样性的面貌,再现、质疑和反思了不同国家和地区在城市化过程中的社会语境、政治经济背景、性别意识、后殖民认同、文化建构等方面的发展症候。通过述评电影史上一些重要的出租车电影及其司机形象,能够展现"城市现代性"的几幅面孔,为进一步探讨都市电影在社会空间、阶级构成、性别论述、交通发展等方面的再现议题提供文本基础和整体脉络。

The taxi driver,as an important type of character in the urban films,represents and reflects different historicalcontexts,economic developments,gender issues,post- colonial identities and cultural constructions in various countries and regions. This essay gives a brief review on some important move protagonists- the five faces of urban modernity- in taxi films,providing some important bases and context for further research in fields such as social space,class or gender discourse and traffic development in modern cities.