大卫·波德维尔的亚洲电影研究及其反思

Reflection on David Bordwell’s Asian Film Studies

大卫·波德维尔秉持电影的世界性观念,将亚洲电影作为其学术版图中的重要部分,如日本电影,以及中国香港和中国台湾电影。他在亚洲电影与西方电影的跨文化比较中,从历史与诗学两个维度归纳出共性,进而建构了庞大而清晰的电影知识体系,重新整固了电影本体观及其独立的学科意识。但由于思维方式与研究方法的极端性,其亚洲电影研究仅仅聚焦于艺术形式,也带来了艺术形式雷同、忽视本质性差异、缺乏思想文化内涵、影响研究主观化等缺陷。

Asian films,especially those of Japan,Hong Kong and Taiwan,are regarded important in David Bordwell’s academic landscape.Through a cross-cultural comparison between Asian and Western films,he summarized commonalities from the perspectives of history and poetics,not only constructed a huge and clear film knowledge system,but re-consolidate the film ontology and its independent subject awareness.However,due to the extreme nature of his way of thinking and research methods,Bordwell’s research focuses too much on art forms.As a result,it has brought about a series of defects,such as similarity in art forms,neglect of essential differences,lack of ideological and cultural connotations,and overly subjective research results.