西部电影发展和中国现代性变奏

借助现代性视角来观照西部电影的转型,认为西方现代性主要是一种与过去断裂、向未来敞开、不断进步的时间意识,而由于多重的社会历史原因,中国现代性则体现为一种东方与西方、乡村与城市、封闭与开放对比的空间结构。中国西部电影作为中国现代性追求的生动隐喻和民族现代性体验的深刻写照,在其发展早期,主要从"城乡差别"的对比反差来现实主义地观照城市与农村、现代与传统、开放与保守等现代性反差及其对中国人造成的心灵震颤,而在后期,新世纪以来的"新西部电影"则回避现实,热衷于历史想象叙事,通过"朝野冲突"的戏剧冲突,浪漫地隐喻和象征了探索发展中的中国电影人既借鉴学习又力图对抗好莱坞产业强势的垄断、霸权的后现代矛盾与焦虑。

The Development of Western Movie and the Changing of Chinese Modernity

In order to understand the development of Western movie of China in a sound deepth,this paper puts forward a new conception of Chinese modernity,and considers that the western modernity is mainly a sense of time,but Chinese modernity is a sense of space.As to Western movie of China,dualistic contrast and conflict between China and foreign coutries,city and village,western area and eastern area were vividly presented on the screen.In the early phase,contrast between western villages and eastern citise become a mirror of the contradiction of Chinese modernity,while in the later phase,conflicts between the control of royal court and the resistance of the roving brave were a reprensentation of the post-modernity worries of Chinese film makers for the hegemony of Hollywood.