作为现代社会意识形态的大众文化——约翰·B.汤普森现代文化理论评析

Mass Culture as Modern Society's Ideology:An Analysis of the Modern Culture Theory of John B. Thompson

约翰·B.汤普森通过对现代西方意识形态三种形式的分析,认为关于意识形态产生和运行的宏大叙事理论已经不能适用于现代社会,大众文化已成为其意识形态;他在将现代文化传媒化视为现代文化重要转型的基础上,以象征形式为分析焦点,把大众传播理论、文化理论与意识形态理论有机结合起来,在文化传媒化场域较系统地解析大众文化所具有的意识形态性质。汤普森现代文化理论对信息社会的大众文化发展和意识形态解析具有重要意义,同时也存在明显局限。

By analyzing the three forms of modern Western ideology, John B. Thompson comes to the conclusion that thegrand narratives governing the origin and operation of ideologiesare no longer applicable to modern society. Instead, mass culture has grown as the ideology ofmodern society. On this basis,Thompson has come to see the medializationof modern culture as the new paradigm and combines thetheories of mass communication,culture and ideology in his new analysis by way of thesymbolic form to showcase the major ideological features of the mass culture in the field of mass communication. Thompson＇ s modern culture theoryis important for the development of mass culture andthe analysis of ideology despite its obvious defects.