亚洲城市与建筑的电影再现

Representations of Asian Cities and Architecture in Movies

《影武者》《印度之行》《今天我休息》和《请君一舞》四部电影在讲述各自故事的同时,也展现了封建时代、殖民时代、社会主义时代或现当代不同时期的亚洲城市和建筑。它们不仅具有十分丰富的社会历史信息,而且涉及诸多与城市和建筑相关的专业议题:在建筑学方面,包括建筑类型与功能、建筑风格、建筑技术和构造,甚至包括建筑所体现的文化冲突与交融;在城市学方面,有城市政策、社会组织、城市管理、对公共领域的占领,以及城市的主观想象——"构形";在空间社会学方面,有权力的表现、性别的社会建构、身份认同和转变。对于城市和建筑的教学与研究,这些影视作品堪为重要参考资料。

This paper takes four movies, Kagemusha, A Passage to India, It＇s My Day Off, and Shall We Dance, as examples of the representations of Asian cities and architecture in pre-modern, colonial, socialist, and post-modern periods. Through an in-depth analysis on building types, architectural styles, spatial layout and human activities in relationship to issues such as spatial organization and contest, urban governance, power exercise, as well as gender construction, the author argues that movie materials are valuable resources for understanding,studying, and teaching the history of Asian cities and architecture.