“七人影评”:补遗与考辨

“Film Essays of the Seven Critics”:A Supplementary and Textual Analysis

5篇新发现的发表于《大公报》(香港版)上的"七人影评"作品,集中体现了20世纪40年代末香港左派电影批评的特性。一方面,这些政治立场鲜明、言辞不乏尖锐的批评文章,丰富了我们对"七人影评"整体面貌的认知;另一方面,贯穿于这些文章中的美学思想和修辞策略,也相当直观地展示出当时香港左派国语电影批评的政治性。它既指向一种政治地理解电影艺术的美学观念,也呼应着当时中国共产党在香港的文化和统战策略。

Five newly discovered “Film Essays of the Seven Critics”published in Ta Kung Pao(Hong Kong Edition)epitomize the characteristics of Hong Kong's leftist film criticism in the late 1940s.On the one hand,these sharp-pointed essays with clear-cut political positions enrich current understanding of the“Film Essays of the Seven Critics”.On the other hand,the aesthetic thoughts and rhetorical strategies throughout these articles also intuitively show the political nature of the left-wing Mandarin film criticism in Hong Kong at that time,which not only refers to an idea of how to understand film art politically,but echoes the intention of the CPC(Communist Party of China)to intervene and lead the Hong Kong film world back then.