日本电影研究的横向新拓展——评罗丽娅《日本武士电影研究》

New Frontiers in Japanese Film Studies—A Review on the Research on Japanese Samurai Films

日本电影是东亚电影的重要组成部分,一定程度上代表了东方电影的较高成就,研究日本电影者众,但鲜有把日本武士电影研究当作“一面镜子”来研究日本电影,甚至是东亚电影的著作。为在多维度上全面解析日本电影,《日本武士电影》析出武士道精神一个内核,在纵横两个视角,循着主题设置、形式风格和制片策略三方面分析日本武士电影,借助精神分析、空间理论、符号学等理论方法,破除了类型和范式的藩篱,在日本武士电影的创作观念、思想主题和美学追求上都进行了极大的横向新拓展,该著作史论兼顾、点面结合,研究视野开阔、研究方法多元,注重为探寻电影背后更深层的哲学问题找到一条“行之有效”的新道路。

Japanese film is an important part of East Asian cinema and represents a high level of achievement in Eastern cinema to some extent. There are many researchers who study Japanese film, but few have studied Japanese samurai films as a “mirror” to study Japanese cinema, and even East Asian cinema. In order to comprehensively analyze Japanese film from multiple dimensions, Research on Japanese Samurai Films extracts the essence of the bushido spirit. Through the vertical and hori-zontal perspectives, it analyzes Japanese samurai films from three aspects: theme setting, formal style, and production strategy. By using theoretical methods such as psychoanalysis, space theory, and semiotics, it breaks through the barriers of genre and paradigm, and greatly expands the hori-zontal dimension of Japanese samurai films in terms of creative concepts, ideological themes, and aesthetic pursuits. This work combines history and theory, and has a broad research perspective and multiple research methods. It emphasizes finding an “effective” new path to explore the deeper philosophical issues behind cinema.