在宏大理論外思索電影研究

Moving Beyond Grand Theory: Thoughts on Film Studies

大衛．波威爾(David Bordwell) ； 葉月瑜(Emilie Yueh-yu YEH) ； 呂琛(Chen LU) ； 彭侃(Kan PENG)

《傳播與社會學刊》 18期 (2011/10) Pp. 1-15

https://doi.org/10.30180/CS.201110_(18).0002

並列摘要

David Bordwell, the most cited film scholar in English, Chinese, French, Danish and many other languages, has been a regular visitor to the Hong Kong International Film Festival since the early 1990s. This year we had the opportunity to talk to him about the formation of film studies as a recognized academic discipline in the United States. We discussed the subject's later diffusion driven by the ＂grand theory＂ of psychoanalysis, structural linguistics, neo-Marxism, feminism, queer theory, and cultural studies in the humanities. Instead of paying heed to the top-down model of grand theory, Bordwell suggested we take a different approach and see it as an accumulative, ＂progressive＂ intellectual undertaking. This progressive undertaking organizes itself around a problem-based agenda that seeks answers to clarify key issues in film as a communicative and industrial enterprise.