"光韵"的消失和再生--我们今天怎么看老电影

本文本雅明的“光韵”理论对“看老电影”现象进行文化分析。这里的“老电影”特指1949年新中国成立后拍摄的以革命战争和革命历史为题材的旨在进行革命传统教育的一系列电影。这些老电影在经过了多年的沉寂之后,在新媒体和新时空的条件下又成为一种文化时尚。人们看老电影,但又很难接受电影文本中的故事“内容”。我们今天欣赏老电影,也是在欣赏放映老电影的新环境和老电影与新环境融为一体的新境界,而不是老电影本身。

The Disappearance and Re-appearance of "Aura": The Way We See the Old Films

The paper makes a cultural analysis of the phenomenon of "watching the old films" on the basis ofBenjamen's "Aura". Here the "old films" refer to the films produced after the establishment of P. R. of Chinain 1949 and related to the revolutionary war and the revolutionary history. "Old films" were aimed at the edu-cation of revolutionary history. But now after years of silence, they become a cultural trend with the conditionof the new medium and new time and space. People watch the old films, but hardly accept the story of thosefilms. Therefore, rather than the old films themselves, we enjoy both the new environment of the old filmsand the integration of the old films in the new age.