媒介与科技强势时代的类型电影研究——托马斯·埃尔塞瑟心智游戏电影研究述评

Genre Film Studies in the Era of Media and Technology:Review and Commentary on Thomas Elsaesser’s Mind-Game Film Research

21世纪以来,媒介与科技问题在整个电影理论研究中都变得十分凸显,导致其一直处于研究转变之中,这种转变也体现在类型电影研究上。电影理论家托马斯·埃尔塞瑟发表了三篇论文集中研究心智游戏电影,将它看作与媒介和科技密切相关的新类型电影。埃尔塞瑟的心智游戏电影研究,既充分考虑到媒介与科技作为新的强势话语对类型电影研究的影响,从而积极寻找新的研究思路,同时也坚持将西方类型电影的经典研究思路作为其研究底色。媒介与科技成为强势话语也是21世纪以来很多人文学科研究面临的现状,尤其是目前关于元宇宙的讨论更是将这种趋势推向了高潮。人文学界普遍的研究倾向是进一步强调和夸大媒介与科技话语的威力。埃尔塞瑟心智游戏电影研究所选择的这种新旧结合的研究思路能够给当前在媒介与科技影响下的其他人文学科研究带来一定的启发。

Since the 21st century,the issue of media and technology has become increasingly prominent in the film theory research on the whole,leading to constant research transformation,as is evident in the research of genre films.Film theorist Thomas Elsaesser published three papers on“Mind-Game Film”,viewing it as a new genre closely related to media and technology.His research is not only a full consideration of the impact of media and technology as a new powerful discourse on genre film research,thus an active move to seek new research directions,but also an indication of his adherence to the classical approach to Western genre film studies,which is a defining feature of his research.Media and technology as a powerful discourse has been the status quo faced by many humanities researchers since the new century,and the current discussions on Metaverse have pushed this trend to a climax.The humanities community as a whole tend to further emphasize and exaggerate the power of media and technology.However,Elsaesser chooses to combine the tradition and the new trend through the research of“Mind-Game Film”,which is an inspiration to other humanities researchers under the influence of media and technology.