“想象力消费”视域下的文化冷战——论苏俄太空类科幻电影的美学特征

The Cultural Cold War from the Perspective of Imagination Consumption:The Aesthetics of the Deep Space Science Fiction Movies of the USSR

在文化冷战的背景下,美国和苏联都拍摄了大量的太空类科幻电影。近年来,美国科幻电影是中国科幻电影工业学习并试图超越的对象,而苏联的科幻电影却没有受到同等的重视。苏俄太空科幻电影在共产主义政治想象、国家和民族想象、技术乌托邦想象和宗教救赎想象四个层面彰显了独特的美学价值。当代中国构建“想象力消费”电影不应仅仅以美式科幻大片为靶向,还应该关注特色鲜明的苏俄科幻电影,从中汲取养料。

During the"cultural Cold War",a large number of deep space science fiction movies were shot by the United States and the USSR.In recent years,the Chinese sci-fi movie industry studies American sci-fi movies in the hope of surpassing them while ignoring the USSR masterpieces.The USSR sci-fi movies have distinctive aesthetic values in terms of communist political imagination,national and ethnic imagination,technological utopian imagination,and religious redemption imagination.To make greater contemporary Chinese movies for imagination consumption,one should take in the quintessence of the USSR sci-fi movies while imitating the American ones.