世界输出:殖民征服的情节剧

World Export: Melodramas of Colonial Conquest

对于"好莱坞对世界输出了什么"这一问题,古典好莱坞电影叙事、"白话现代主义"和通俗情节剧提供了三种阐释视角。与"白话现代主义"这一概念相比,汉森提出的"第一全球白话"政治上更为进步,深刻指出好莱坞输出的产品是对世界的殖民。"种族和国族的情节剧"为伴随海外殖民征服所引发的新型社会秩序种族化现象提供了合理化的解释。好莱坞输出的内容和当地人所接受的输入的内容并不一致,这种"输入—输出悖论"在中国现代性发展过程中也得以体现。

Three answers-classical Hollywood narrative, " vernacular modernism", and popular melodrama are examined in answer to the question, "What did Hollywood export to the rest of the world?" Hansen’s companion formulation of a "first global vernacular" helps us immeasurably in thinking of Hollywood export product as world colonizing. Films viewed as "melodramas of race and nation" are useful to demonstrating what film melodrama theory tells us about popular narratives recruited to rationalize newly racialized social orders coincident with colonial conquest abroad. Within film and media studies there is as yet no consensus as to how to theorize what was exported, let alone what to say about what becomes of the import over there on arrival. So we have here an import-export paradox companion to that of Chinese modernity: what was exported was not the same as what was imported.