教育性:中国电影的社会理性

Educative Nature as the Social Rationality Inherent in Chinese Films

电影的教育性在中国电影的发展过程中得到了突出的重视,它体现在电影教育所蕴含的政治、道德、审美、娱乐等功能元素在实际发展的过程中出现了明显的排位变化,呈现出某些功能的突显、倾斜与扩张。中国电影界对教育性的强调以及教育内涵的演变既是中国电影在特殊的历史时代背景和国情之下通过影像强化民族国家意识,从而期盼实现独立民族国家的理性抉择,也是新时期以来电影恢复主体意识,逐渐摆脱狭隘的政治领域回归艺术教育本质的理论自觉。这是中国在现代化进程中,各种政治力量及知识分子期望通过电影实现"教育救国、教育兴国"的强力举措,同时也是电影界遵循电影艺术自我运转规律的理智决定。中国电影理论在发展过程中实现了教育的实践和理论的统一,这种社会理性影响了电影理论的发展路径,同时也成为其理论特色之一。

Educative nature inherent in Chinese films has been attached great importance in the development of the film in- dustry, which finds testimony in the political, moral, aesthetic and entertaining elements in Chinese motion pictures and the importance attached to them. The function of patriotic education and the evolvement of its presentation and its restoration of the artistic value to Chinese films underline the fact that educative nature of Chinese films has all along been valued, demonstrating the common aspiration of the political circle and the intelligentsia to revitalize the country through education and the rational philosophy transfer of the film industry. Both theories and practice have been characteristic and empha- sized in development of Chinese film theories.