映照与挑战:美国电影中身体恐惧的政治隐喻流变

Reflections and Challenges:Changing Political Metaphors of Body Fear in American Films

近年来,电影对“身体”的描写呈现出一种回归之势,诸如法国新极限电影(French Cinema du Corps)对身体和感官体验的极端呈现,其中具有广泛影响力的一种类型是身体恐怖电影中对身体恐惧(body panic)的描写。身体恐惧在早期好莱坞类型电影的创作中已经形成一种独特风格,并隐含着国家层面的政治隐喻,映照了美国政治社会的变迁。随着社会时代的发展,美国电影中身体恐惧的政治隐喻也在不断变化,从国家层面向个人层面转向并在21世纪全球化、信息化的复杂背景下呈现出对现实的一种超越和挑战。

In recent years,there has been a return to depictions of the body"in film,such as the extreme representation of the body and sensory experience in the French Cinema du Corps,one of the most influential genres is the depiction of the"Body Panic"in the body horror flm.Body fear has already formed a unique style in the creation of early Hollywood genre films,and implied political metaphors at the national level,reflecting the changes of American society.With the development of the era,the political metaphor of physical fear in American movies is also constantly changing,shifing from the national level to the individual level and presenting a transcendence and challenge to reality under the complex background of globalization and informatization in the 21st century.