阿瑟·米勒后9·11戏剧《复活蓝调》中的媒介景观批判

Arthur Miller’s Criticism on Media Spectacle in the Post 9/11 Play Resurrection Blues

《复活蓝调》是阿瑟·米勒在9·11后创作的第一个剧本。该剧背景虽然设在一个不同于美国的遥远国度,但是其中对美国当代媒介景观和消费至上观念的批判以及其对第三世界国家的文化侵略进行了强有力的批判。媒体报道的道德滑坡、商品拜物教与人的主体性的消失和宗教信仰的坍塌,表达了米勒对以消费文化为主导的社会的批判和宗教救赎的无望。

Resurrection Blues is Arthur Miller’s first play written after 9/11.Although it is set in a remote country different from the United States,the play criticizes contemporary American media spectacle and consumerism as well as its cultural aggression against third world countries.Miller’s criticism of a society dominated by consumer culture and the hopelessness of religious salvation is well illustrated from the following aspects:the media’s moral decline,commodity fetishism and loss of human subjectivity,and the collapse of religious beliefs.