全球化时代的疫病隐喻:病毒电影的文化和意识形态

The Metaphor of Epidemic in the Age of Globalization: The Culture and Ideology of Virus Film

在新冠肺炎疫情肆虐全球之际,本文以现实与影像叙事对照的方式探讨病毒电影如何通过危机叙事想象性地回应社会文化和政治问题,同时本身又成为意识形态的推手,对偏见、歧见的流行起到推波助澜的作用。文章在简要梳理病毒电影的类型和发展后,讨论了这一电影类别产生的全球化语境,之后选取病毒电影叙事的三个关键要素,即病源的探寻、隔离与叙事冲突设置、末日文化景观,进行文化和意识形态的分析。

As the coronavirus epidemic rages around the world, this article explores how viral films respond to social, cultural, and political issues through crisis narrative imagination in a contrasting manner between reality and image narrative. At the same time, it has become an ideological pusher for a prevalence of prejudice and discrimination. After briefly sorting out the genre and development of viral films, this article will discuss the global context produced by this film genre, and then single out three key elements of viral film narrative, namely the exploration of the source of the disease, the isolation and conflict setting, and the cultural landscape of the doomsday for further cultural and ideological analysis.