尼日利亚电影的“民主”实践

Practising “Democracy” in Nigerian Films

在全球新自由主义的经济政治体制和尼日利亚的军事统治下,伴随着录像和数字技术所带来的美学可能性,本文探讨了"诺莱坞"对尼日利亚社会结构转型的反映,重点考察了"民主电影"类型中,公众对公认的文化或个体符号的接受推动电影发展出新的美学模式。然而,这些电影制作实践也限制了意识形态上进步电影创作的可能性。因此,一种部分源于经济语境的电影形式似乎陷入了美学困境,但本文认为,诺莱坞的增殖(proliferation)趋势可能是走出困境的一种方式。

This article discusses the response of "Nollywood" to the transformation of Nigeria’ s social structure through the economic and political regimes of global neo-liberalism and Nigeria’s military rule, and the aesthetic possibilities enabled by video and digital technologies. The article suggests that the idea of a public receptive to mutually recognized cultural or personal symbols is used to develop new aesthetic modes in"democracy films". But these film-making practices also circumscribe the possibilities of an ideologically progressive cinematic practice. Thus, a form originating partly from an economic context appears caught in an aesthetic impasse, but the article suggests that the tendency in Nollywood toward generic proliferation might represent one path out of the impasse.