论詹姆逊对当代西方电影的后现代性解读

On Fredric Jameson's Post-modern Interpretation of Contemporary Western Movies

詹姆逊认为当代西方电影是典型的大众文化,具有影像资本化、虚假的怀旧、主体中心地位消失等后现代特征。当代西方电影的后现代特征是由晚期资本主义社会的消费环境造成的,电影形象全部被转化成可消费的商品,缺乏历史深度。詹姆逊对于当代西方电影的后现代性所带来的历史深度的削弱、主体情感的消逝和集体伦理价值观的摧毁持批判否定的态度。通过批判当代西方电影的后现代性,詹姆逊旨在批判晚期资本主义文化逻辑和剖析资本主义社会制度,从而寻求资本主义社会的出路,描摹未来生活的图景。

Fredric Jameson thinks that contemporary Western movies are typical mass culture endowed with the post-modern characteristics of image capitalization,false nostalgia,disappearance of central position of subject,etc.The post-modern characteristics of contemporary Western movies result from the consumption environment of late capitalist society,in which movie images are all transformed into consuming commodities without historical depth.Jameson criticizes the deficiency of historical depth,vanishing of subject emotions and destruction of collectivist ethics and values brought by post-modernity of contemporary Western movies.Through criticizing the post-modernity of contemporary Western movies,Jameson means to criticize the cultural logic of late capitalism and anatomizes the social system of capitalism and finds a new way for capitalist society and envisions a Utopian landscape of future life.