重新定义电影:影像体感经验与电影现象学思潮

在世纪之交电影“大理论”受到全盘质疑的大背景下,当代关涉电影本性、电影叙事、观影体验以及影像与观众关系等重要观念的电影现象学思潮,不仅为我们重新认识和定义电影提供了鲜活独特的切入角度,促使我们更完整丰满地思考电影这一19世纪诞生的“老媒体”,而且也开拓、启迪了“大理论”退潮后僵止的理论路径,有助于我们思辨性地把握和理解数字“新媒体”条件下日益普在性的影像与人类、屏幕与日常生活浑然一体的社会文化转型.

Redefining Cinema: The Embodied Experience and Phenomenology of Film

Based on a critical reading and evaluation of the development of contemporary phenomenological film theory that to a large extent redefines the nature of cinema,film narrative,cinematic experience,and the relationship between moving images and the audience,this article aims to highlight the intimate and immediate relationship between the concepts of embodiment,tactility,bodily sensorium and digital moving images.The author contends that,after the waning of Grand Theory in film studies at the turn of the new century,phenomenology of film not only provides us a fresh and worth-exploring approach to a redefinition of cinema,thus affords us the opportunity to have a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of cinema as a 19th century "old medium," but also breaks the theoretical impasse after Grand Theory in film studies has been challenged from many directions.This line of thinking about cinema could be further extended to our critical analysis and understanding of digital "new media" environment,even of contemporary social and cultural transformation,where human-image interfacing is ubiquitous,and our everyday life is increasingly defined by our interactions with a variety of digital screens.