二战后的泰国电影:分化的国家、观众与电影风格

Post-war Thai Cinema: Audiences and Film Style in a Divided Nation

社会分化造成双重观众并且影响泰国电影的形态。富裕的城市观众享受好莱坞电影,底层的农村观众偏爱本土电影。"16毫米时代"的泰国电影强调壮观的场面和过度的画面,与下层人民和农村地区的集体观影习惯密切相关。当代泰国电影仍然呈现16毫米时代电影"卑贱"和"低劣"的特征,不仅是泰国电影历史发展的体现,而且是泰国社会内部持续分化的征候。

Social divisions created two-tiered audience and shaped Thai cinema’s forms and styles.Affluent urban Viewers enjoy Hollywood productions, rural and lower-class audiences favour local films.16 mm Era films favoured spectacle and visual excess,this style is related to the communal viewing conventions of the lower-class and rural upcountry audiences. Contemporary Thai films still displaying the ‘abject’ and ‘inferior’ characteristics of the lowerclass 16 mm era are not only indicative of historical Thai film development but is also symptomatic of the continuing social divisions within Thailand.