历史的电影形式

The Cinematographic Forms of History

观影如何治史?藉影耕史-反之亦然-何以可能?电影与历史作为异体同源的现象,到底该怎么互为主体,彼此接力,才不会落入跨领域研究惯见的套用化窠臼?本文以一次极私密的观影经验为运思起点,提出兼具认识论跟方法论诉求的“历史的电影形式”;借着对此研究假设进行谱系式的脉络化爬梳,期许能在回答上述深度串连的问题之余,探寻继而论证历史学家、电影导演跟观影者这些二度创世者的异曲通工性:他们无一不在调度自身那名为赋形的能力,尽管该能力适巧源于被赋形的对象自身。

How come by watching films,far from being a nonproductive experience,one can make his/her own history while imbedding such history into the History(of cinema)?In which way is the homologous analogy possible between history and cinema,or more precisely,historiography and filmmaking?By propos-ing the epistemological as well as methodological hypothesis"the cinematographic forms of history"as the answer however open to debate,this essay,after a genealogical contextualization,would like to argue,if not testify,that since both media,history and cinema,are a matter of mise en forme,in spite of their ar-chival and"embalming"nature,and since the foremost capacity of cinema is that of historical narrative,all have a history and all histories are possible.