早期电影连环画(1921—1949):类型、传播、物质性

Early Picture-Story Films(1921-1949):Genre,Circulation,and Materiality

中国电影连环画发端于20世纪20年代、风靡于30—40年代,在中国电影史中一直少受关注。事实上,民国期间,电影连环画发展出了丰富且各具优长的类型。作为新兴传播媒介,电影连环画将电影故事、人物和观念以多种形式传播于报刊、街巷以及没有影院的市镇,为没有能力在影院观影的普通大众提供了在影院外"看电影"的方式,作为具有流动性和能动的"行动者",电影连环画既能在纸媒端替代、保存和复原电影,同时也作用于电影本身,甚至影响了电影发展的走向。

While the form of picture-story film originates in the second decade of the 20 th century, gaining popularity in the third and fourth, the attention it receives in Chinese film history has been disproportionately low. In fact, such form of cinema has evolved into diverse genres with respective edges during the era of the Republic of China. As an emerging medium, picture-story film spreads film stories, characters and concepts in newspapers, streets and towns without theatres in various forms, providing a way for the general public who are unable to watch movies in theatres to “watch” one. As an “actor” with fluidity and subjectivity, picture-story film substitutes, conserves, and restores original movies. In the meanwhile, it exerts influence on film as well, and even shifts the development trend of Chinese film.