Playing the Race Card 在线电子书 图书标签: 电影研究 电影理论 电影 未读完 媒介研究 Melodrama必读
发表于2024-10-31
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C1. The American Melodramatic Mode.
评分C1. The American Melodramatic Mode.
评分C1. The American Melodramatic Mode.
评分只读了第一章“The American Melodramatic Mode”,感觉是本写作清晰,批判锐利的书。这一章主要总结了早期好莱坞电影的melodrama模式中产生的惯例手法(家指向innocence;展示受难的victim hero;两种时间安排,太迟了和刚刚好;挪用现实主义手法服务于戏剧化;价值二元对立等等),并且颠覆性地阐述了这种melodrama模式超越了一种genre,且并不是如之前批评家所想的melodrama只是电影发展中的某个已过去的阶段,而是成为此后大众商业电影的核心范式。对照解读20年代的一部电影和《泰坦尼克号》的分析十分妥帖精确;但要之后的章节才会进入本书主题:种族再现问题。以后分析电影得好好学着点这本书。
评分C1. The American Melodramatic Mode.
The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and disturbing influence on Americans' understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this boldly inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly divisive racial sentiments aroused by such recent events as O. J. Simpson's criminal trial.Williams, the author of "Hard Core", explores how these images took root, beginning with melodramatic theater, where suffering characters acquire virtue through victimization. The racial sympathies and hostilities that surfaced during the trial of the police in the beating of Rodney King and in the O. J. Simpson murder trial are grounded in the melodramatic forms of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Birth of a Nation". Williams finds that Stowe's beaten black man and Griffith's endangered white woman appear repeatedly throughout popular entertainment, promoting interracial understanding at one moment, interracial hate at another.The black and white racial melodrama has galvanized emotions and fueled the importance of new media forms, such as serious, "integrated" musicals of stage and film, including "The Jazz Singer" and "Show Boat". It also helped create a major event out of the movie "Gone With the Wind", while enabling television to assume new moral purpose with the broadcast of Roots. Williams demonstrates how such developments converged to make the televised race trial a form of national entertainment. When prosecutor Christopher Darden accused Simpson's defense team of "playing the race card," which ultimately trumped his own team's gender card, he feared that the jury's sympathy for a targeted black man would be at the expense of the abused white wife.The jury's verdict, Williams concludes, was determined not so much by facts as by the cultural forces of racial melodrama long in the making. Revealing melodrama to be a key element in American culture, Williams argues that the race images it has promoted are deeply ingrained in our minds and that there can be no honest discussion about race until Americans recognize this predicament.
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