数字后现代时代的电影研究

Film Studies in Digital Post-Modern Era

后工业、后现代及后学科的学术环境具有跨学科的特点。新千年的世界已经不再建立于现代主义假设甚或是其现实之上,随着虚拟的、增强的技术发展, 20世纪电影理论标准范式所提供的确定性已经失落了。在不同时期、语境和技术的背景下,探讨电影学科的认识论、主题史以及电影理论范式变革的价值成为关键。以"语言"(结构、形式、流派)和"言语"(语调、风格、轶事)的符号学框架作为批判性考察上述问题的主要方法论,并使用这两个术语来分别透析电影研究中的"主题"(学科意义上的"语言")和"话题"(可能脱离其所在学科的"言语")。当下很多电影学院仍然采用现代主义工业授课模式,而与之相对的,以分析电影文本为基础的后现代主义授课模式则倾向于不以电影理论为解释框架。另外,数字式故事讲述通过"观看-行动"者虚拟互动的体验式参与来重新绘制"语言"和"言语"的图景。

Interdisciplinary nature characterizes the post-industrial,post-modern,post-disciplinary intellectual environment.With the virtual and augmented technological development,the certainties offered by the traditional normative theories in the 20th century are lost in the new millennium world that appears to be no longer fully grounded on modernist assumptions or even material reality.It is of critical importance to know about disciplinary epistemologies,disciplinary histories and the paradigmatic evolution of film theories across different periods,contexts and conditions.This article critically examines some of these issues by applying the framework of"langue"(structure,form,schools,etc.)and"parole"(accent,style,anecdotes,etc.)as the major approach and analyzes"theme"("langue"in the disciplinary sense)and"topic"("parole"in the non-disciplinary sense)accordingly.Contrary to the modernistic and industrial teaching mode adopted by many current film academies,film text-based post-modernistic teaching mode refuses to take film theories as the explanatory framework.In addition,digital story telling approach attempts to re-map the"langue"and"parole"scene by letting the"spec-actors"have the virtual,interactive experience.