历史与文艺的互动考察:重读红色电影人贾霁

Interaction between History and Literature and Arts:Rereading Revolutionary Film Critic Jia Ji

电影批评家贾霁的文艺活动分为三个阶段,即1949年以前的戏剧活动、“十七年”的电影批评与创作以及新时期的电影批评与电影教育。在长期的革命工作中,贾霁形成了“文艺为政治服务”的文艺思想,并且这一思想又因其对《武训传》的批判而得到强化。新时期,贾霁跳出国家理论的批评视野,反思电影作为艺术的表现方式。他的文艺思想折射了时代主流价值和文艺思想的光谱。需要结合具体时代语境和对当下问题的回应之双重历史视角来确定贾霁文艺思想的地位和价值。

Film critic Jia Ji’s literary and artistic activities can be divided into three stages:engagement with drama before 1949,film criticism and creations during the“Seventeen Years”(1949-1966)and film criticism and education in the new period starting from 1976.Through long-term revolutionary work,Jia gradually formed the thought of“literature and art serving politics”,which was strengthened by his criticism of the film The Legend of Wu Xun.However,in the new period,Jia abandoned the mindset of film criticism centering on“serving politics”.Rather,he began to rethink the role of film as an artistic expression.Jia’s thought on arts and literature reflects the mainstream value of the times and the spectrum of literary thought.In assessing the status and role of Jia’s thought on arts and literature,we need to adopt a dual historical perspective:considering both the specific context of the times and the responses to the questions at the time.