Towards World Heritage Cinema (Starting from the Negative)
Towards World Heritage Cinema (Starting from the Negative)
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迈向世界遗产电影（从负面开始）
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2016
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A. O’leary
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A. O’leary
要说“传统电影”，就得从负面说起。之所以如此，是因为这个词从它的第一个造币词的上下文中保留了贬义的指控。正如克莱尔·蒙克(Claire Monk，2002)所指出的那样，传统电影的批判性特征必须被理解为从玛格丽特·撒切尔(Margaret Thatcher)首相(1979-90)时期的英国政治氛围中脱颖而出。遗产电影是评论家创造的一个描述者，而不是行业和观众公认的一种类型。撒切尔夫人以击败社会主义的名义瓦解英国大部分工业部门的计划，与之类似、或许也是必不可少的，是对英国特色的狭隘版本，实际上是英国特色(撒切尔夫人将自己称为“英国民族主义者”)，它颂扬白人、殖民历史以及中上层阶级和贵族精英的价值观。左翼学者认为，后来被认定为传统电影的电影与撒切尔夫人的意识形态有关联。对于这些学者来说，遗产电影是一种保守的、意识形态上不健全的形式，它提供了一种高度选择性的英国视野，依附于田园和帝国的价值观，而过去作为奇观[成为]主要的吸引力(维达尔2012：8)。
To speak of ‘heritage cinema’ is to start from the negative. This is so because the term retains a pejorative charge from the context of its first coinage. As Claire Monk (2002) has pointed out, the critical characterisation of heritage cinema, a descriptor coined by critics rather than a genre recognised as such by industry and audiences, has to be understood as emerging from the splenetic British political atmosphere of the Margaret Thatcher premiership (1979–90). Parallel and perhaps essential to Thatcher’s project of dismantling much of Britain’s industrial sector in the name of defeating socialism was a narrow version of Britishness, indeed ‘Englishness’ (Thatcher styled herself an ‘English nationalist’), which celebrated whiteness, the colonial past and the values of the upper middle classes and aristocratic elite. What came to be identified as heritage cinema was seen by scholars on the left to be a correlate of Thatcherite ideology. For these scholars, heritage cinema was a conservative and ideologically unsound form that proffered ‘a highly selective vision of Englishness attached to pastoral and imperial values where the past as spectacle [became] the main attraction’ (Vidal 2012: 8).