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A Bedroom Story 卧室故事
Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.02
Arnau Vilaró Moncasí
The films of Chantal Akerman explore one of the key issues in the representation of female desire: the debate about the mechanisms of a language which, according to Laura Mulvey, is based on a male gaze founded on scopophilia, voyeurism, and fetishism. This article uses the film La captive (2000) and the desire between its two protagonists, Ariane and Simon, to reconsider the link established in feminist theory between language, the gaze, and desire. My hypothesis is that the confinement of Akerman’s female protagonist, expressed through the two dimensions of submission and intimacy, takes an approach to female desire that constitutes an alternative to the forms of the gaze associated with the male tradition of representation. This approach engages in a close dialogue with the concept of desire posited by Emmanuel Levinas, whose ideas had a huge influence on Akerman’s understanding of how to film the Other, as well as the relationship between the image and its observer.
尚塔尔·阿克曼的电影探讨了女性欲望表现的关键问题之一:关于语言机制的争论,根据劳拉·穆尔维的说法,这种语言是基于男性的凝视,这种凝视建立在窥阴癖、偷窥癖和恋物癖之上。本文以电影La captive(2000)及其两位主角Ariane和Simon之间的欲望为例,重新思考女性主义理论中建立的语言、凝视和欲望之间的联系。我的假设是,阿克曼的女主人公的禁闭,通过顺从和亲密的两个维度来表达,采取了一种女性欲望的方式,这种方式构成了与男性传统表现相关联的凝视形式的替代。这种方法与伊曼纽尔·列维纳斯(Emmanuel Levinas)提出的欲望概念进行了密切的对话,他的想法对阿克曼对如何拍摄他者以及图像与观察者之间关系的理解产生了巨大的影响。
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Towards a ‘Perverse’ Brechtianism 走向一种“反常的”brechanism
Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.07
Jonathan Harris
In 1990, Thomas Elsaesser wrote that Brechtian aesthetics are toothless in a hyperreal image culture. Thirty years on, this essay reworks the notion of distanciation by asking: what if we cannot decide whether the unnatural behavior of characters on screen is the product of Brechtian alienation or of the character’s own perversion, but rather is caused by both (and therefore neither)? To chart the transition between orthodox and “perverse” Brechtianisms, this essay compares a film by a director whose melodramas are often read as examples of Brechtian cinema, Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955), and a film by a contemporary director whose work is often misread as the very thing it satirizes, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle (2016). This essay argues that, in the absence of a world “out there” to represent, the techniques of Brecht become perverse, a Sadean laboratory for the rehearsal of illicit forms of pleasure.
1990年,Thomas Elsaesser写道,布莱希特美学在超真实的图像文化中是没有牙齿的。三十年过去了,这篇文章通过提出这样的问题重新定义了距离的概念:如果我们无法确定银幕上人物的不自然行为是布莱希特式异化的产物还是人物自身变态的产物,而是两者都造成的(因此两者都不是),那该怎么办?为了描绘正统和“反常的”布莱希特主义之间的过渡,本文比较了一位导演的电影,他的情节剧经常被解读为布莱希特电影的例子,道格拉斯·西尔克的《天堂允许的一切》(1955年)和一位当代导演的电影,他的作品经常被误解为讽刺的东西,保罗·范霍芬的《Elle》(2016年)。这篇文章认为,在缺乏一个“外面”的世界来表现的情况下,布莱希特的技巧变得反常,是一个排练非法快乐形式的萨丁实验室。
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Toward the Threshold 走向门槛
Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.31009/10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.06
Agustín Rugiero Bader
This article presents an analysis of how the male hegemony in the “Global North” has conceptualized the witch as an image of female alterity. My approach is informed by studies by Julia Kristeva, Teresa de Lauretis, Hélène Cixous, and Barbara Creed. Drawing on these works, I explore how the witch actively desires and uses the power of her desire to draw the male subject toward the “place where meaning collapses” (Agamben 2007). The study is supported by a prior analysis of the concepts of witchcraft, perversion, and abjection. After establishing the conceptual framework, the study sample is divided into three filmic categories: the witch in society; the witch in the socialization process; and the witch as perverse resistance. My argument is that the witch, as a female figure inherently associated with sexuality, crosses the thresholds of eroticism and perversion, and possesses the power to challenge binary structures from within.
本文分析了“全球北方”的男性霸权是如何将女巫概念化为女性另类形象的。我的方法借鉴了Julia Kristeva、Teresa de Lauretis、hendrix Cixous和Barbara Creed的研究。通过这些作品,我探索了女巫如何积极地渴望并利用她的欲望的力量将男性主体吸引到“意义崩溃的地方”(Agamben 2007)。这项研究得到了巫术、变态和堕落等概念的先前分析的支持。在建立概念框架后,研究样本被分为三个电影类别:社会中的女巫;社会化过程中的女巫;而女巫则是邪恶的反抗者。我的观点是,女巫作为一个天生与性相关的女性形象,跨越了色情和变态的门槛,拥有从内部挑战二元结构的力量。
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When Woman Teams Up with Monster 当女人和怪物组队
Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.05
Laura Antón Sánchez
How has the relationship between women and monsters influenced the cultural construction of femininity? In contemporary Hollywood audiovisuals, where selfawareness of the story takes on a special importance, particular emphasis is given to the examination of the way in which one of the most memorable horror movie scenes is presented: the one in which the woman meets the monster. The classic scream of horror has been replaced by a thrilling empathic relationship, plausible thanks to its imaginary link with the idea of otherness. This rapprochement, marked by language, has developed in tandem with a process of the humanization of the monster and its influence on the archetype of the hero, which has attracted greater attention inthe construction of the history of cinema. The main question posed by this narrative strategy, in which female empowerment derives from an alliance with the monster, is how this updated scene has contributed to the cultural reconstruction of the female identity. We aim to assess the influence of this metafictional discourse, triggered by the rhetorical device of parody, on shaping a true image of women.
女人与怪物的关系如何影响女性气质的文化建构?在当代好莱坞的视听作品中,故事的自我意识显得尤为重要,特别强调的是对最令人难忘的恐怖电影场景之一的呈现方式的研究:女人遇到怪物的那一幕。经典的恐怖尖叫已经被一种激动人心的共情关系所取代,由于它与他者概念的想象联系,这种关系似乎是可信的。这种以语言为标志的和解与怪物的人性化及其对英雄原型的影响同步发展,在电影史的建构中引起了更大的关注。这种叙事策略提出的主要问题是,女性赋权源于与怪物的联盟,这一更新的场景如何促进了女性身份的文化重建。我们的目的是评估这种元虚构话语的影响,由模仿的修辞手段引发,对塑造一个真实的女性形象。
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Desiring Domestic Workers in "The Maid" and "The Desert Bride" 《女仆》和《沙漠新娘》中的渴望家政工人
Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.04
E. Osborne
This article analyzes the representation of feminine desires in two Southern Conefilms, The Maid (La nana, Sebastián Silva, Chile, 2009) and The Desert Bride (La novia del desierto, Valeria Pivato and Cecilia Atán, Argentina/Chile, 2017), that feature female protagonists who have worked as live-in domestic employees for the same families for over twenty years. Both films eschew traditional depictions of domestic workers as either servile or aggressive to instead present these women as desiring and desirable subjects, thereby questioning how desire and desirability are determined by dominant social norms of femininity predicated on privileges of age, class, and race. Following Rosi Braidotti’s work on nomadism, the article examines desire, as depicted in these films, as a fluid notion that emphasizes transformation and the process of becoming. Ultimately the desires that the protagonists experience in horizontal, affective relationships lead them to embrace newfound independence outside of employment.
本文分析了两部南方电影《女佣》(La nana, Sebastián Silva,智利,2009)和《沙漠新娘》(La novia del desierto, Valeria Pivato和Cecilia Atán,阿根廷/智利,2017)中女性欲望的表现,这两部电影的女主角都是在同一个家庭做了20多年的住家佣人。这两部电影都避免了传统上对家政工人的描绘,将她们描绘成卑贱或好斗的形象,而是将这些女性描绘成渴望和受欢迎的主题,从而质疑欲望和受欢迎是如何由基于年龄、阶级和种族特权的女性气质的主流社会规范决定的。在罗西·布雷多蒂(Rosi Braidotti)关于游牧主义的作品之后,本文考察了这些电影中所描绘的欲望,作为一种强调转变和成为过程的流动概念。最终,主人公在横向情感关系中体验到的渴望,使他们在就业之外获得了新的独立性。
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Female Desire in Film 电影中的女性欲望
Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.01
Núria Bou, Xavier Pérez
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Feminine Desire in Claudia Llosa’s "The Milk of Sorrow" and Shirin Neshat’s "Women Without Men" in Dialogue with Irigaray’s Philosophy of the Caress 克劳迪娅·略萨《悲伤的牛奶》和希林·奈沙《没有男人的女人》中的女性欲望与伊里加雷的爱抚哲学对话
Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.03
Judith Rifeser
An exploration of feminine desire through the lens of Luce Irigaray’s caress is afforded here through the feminist film-philosophical analysis of Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009) and Women Without Men (Zanan-e Bedun-e Mardan, 2009), by Shirin Neshat. Drawing on key scholarship (Watkins 2000; Bainbridge 2008; Bolton [2011] 2015; Quinlivan [2012] 2014), this article offers a novel contribution through its emphasis on the Irigarayan caress. Despite important limitations and silences in Irigaray’s work (Rifeser 2020; Ingram 2008; Bloodsworth-Lugo 2007; Deutscher 2003; Jones, 1981), here the usefulness of Irigaray’s caress is discussed. An exploration of the narrative, formal and aesthetic strategies of Llosa’s and Neshat’s feature films attune the viewer to the embodied, lived experiences of the main women characters, sothat we can envision the Irigarayan caress and the lived experience of feminine desire as woman with oneself, as well as the desire for the other.
通过对克劳迪娅·洛萨的《悲伤的牛奶》(La teta asustada, 2009)和希林·奈沙的《没有男人的女人》(Zanan-e bedon -e Mardan, 2009)的女权主义电影哲学分析,通过卢斯·伊里加雷的爱抚镜头探索女性欲望。利用重点奖学金(Watkins 2000;班布里奇2008;Bolton [2011] 2015;Quinlivan[2012] 2014),本文通过强调Irigarayan爱抚提供了新颖的贡献。尽管在Irigaray的工作中存在重要的局限性和沉默(Rifeser 2020;英格拉姆2008;Bloodsworth-Lugo 2007;德国2003年;Jones, 1981),这里讨论了Irigaray的爱抚的有用性。对略萨和奈沙故事片的叙事、形式和美学策略的探索,将观众与主要女性角色的具体化的、活生生的经历协调起来,这样我们就可以想象Irigarayan的爱抚和女性欲望的活生生的经历,即女性对自己的渴望,以及对他人的渴望。
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When Your Motherboard Replaces the Pearly Gates: Black Mirror and the Technology of Today and Tomorrow 当你的主板取代了珍珠门:黑镜和技术的今天和明天
Pub Date : 2020-05-22 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i14.02
R. Peters
This paper considers five episodes from Charlie Brooker’s dystopian science fiction anthology series, Black Mirror (2011–present). The episodes selected are those that—as argued in this text—depict the role of technology as replacing that of religion. To build this claim, they will be compared to one another, to the Christian biblical concepts they mirror, and to historical events related to theological debates within Christianity.Throughout the history of Western civilization, Christian belief has played an important role in shaping cultural ideologies. For that reason, it could be argued that Christian ideas continue to penetrate our cultural narratives today, despite declining self-recognition in the West as religious or spiritual. Concepts of the afterlife, omniscience, vengeance, ostracism and eternal suffering spring up in some of the least expectedplaces within popular culture today. This paper argues that Black Mirror depicts the materialization of these concepts through imagined worlds, thus signaling the modern-day specters of Christianity.
本文研究了查理·布鲁克反乌托邦科幻小说选集《黑镜》(2011年至今)中的五集。所选的片段——正如本文所论述的那样——描述了技术取代宗教的作用。为了建立这一主张,他们将相互比较,与他们所反映的基督教圣经概念进行比较,并与基督教内部神学辩论相关的历史事件进行比较。在整个西方文明史上,基督教信仰在塑造文化意识形态方面发挥了重要作用。出于这个原因,可以说基督教思想今天继续渗透到我们的文化叙事中,尽管西方对宗教或精神的自我认知在下降。来世、无所不知、复仇、放逐和永恒苦难等概念在当今流行文化中一些最意想不到的地方涌现出来。本文认为,《黑镜》通过想象的世界描绘了这些概念的物化,从而预示了现代基督教的幽灵。
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Foreshadowing the Future of Capitalism: Surveillance Technology and Digital Realism in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes 为资本主义的未来埋下伏笔:徐冰蜻蜓眼中的监控技术与数字现实主义
Pub Date : 2020-05-22 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i14.05
Ling Zhang
How has the development of surveillance technology and its normalized intervention into our social structures and daily lives impact our imagination of the future? Does the “total view” of the intense yet impassive gaze of surveillance cameras, combined with the mediated intimacy of social media videos, foreshadow deeper social alienation or the fulfillment of individual desire? In order to address such questions, I take the Chinese artist Xu Bing and his team’s film Dragonfly Eyes (Qingting zhi yan, 2017) and its surrounding media culture as a case study to demonstrate how surveillance footage and various modes of cinematic ontology, digital realism, and temporality work in a contemporary socio-political-medial context. Composed by Xu and a group of collaborators, Dragonfly Eyes is the only existing feature-length fiction film constructed completely from surveillance footage. As a highly reflexive film, Dragonfly epitomizes and embodies the precarious potentials of the digital future of capitalism, both invigorating and bleak, expressive and corrupt.
监控技术的发展及其对我们社会结构和日常生活的常态化干预如何影响我们对未来的想象?监控摄像头强烈而冷漠的凝视,加上社交媒体视频介导的亲密感,是否预示着更深层次的社会异化或个人欲望的实现?为了解决这些问题,我以中国艺术家徐冰和他的团队的电影《蜻蜓之眼》(Qingting zhi yan, 2017)及其周围的媒体文化为例,展示了监控镜头和电影本体、数字现实主义和时间性的各种模式如何在当代社会政治媒体背景下发挥作用。《蜻蜓之眼》由徐和一群合作者共同创作,是目前唯一一部完全由监控镜头构成的长篇小说电影。作为一部高度反思性的电影,《蜻蜓》集中体现了资本主义数字化未来的不稳定潜力,既有活力又有凄凉,既有表现力又有腐败。
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Blaming the Poor: The False Allure of the Capitalist Critique in the Age of Postmodernism 指责穷人:后现代主义时代资本主义批判的虚假诱惑
Pub Date : 2020-05-22 DOI: 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i14.03
Joseph Walderzak
This article considers The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012) in order to argue through Fredric Jameson that postmodern aspects of a text are capable of obfuscating, if not altogether obliterating, any Marxist polemics. The first portion engages with Jameson’s The Political Unconscious, particularly his emphasis on class struggle and identification of ideologemes which manifest in the text. The subsequent section considers The Dark Knight Rises as a postmodern text through Jameson’s concepts of pastiche and nostalgia. Moreover, The Dark Knight Rises is contextualizedwithin the recent spate of class-oriented cinema. Collectively, the goal is to identify a trend within such films of establishing a correlation between capitalism and inequality, ideologemes and postmodernism. The final result is an increasingly impressive group of genre-spanning films which address contemporary inequality in its multifarious forms, but which treat these issues more so as narrative devices than tenable critiques of the sites of oppression.
本文认为《黑暗骑士崛起》(克里斯托弗·诺兰,2012)是为了通过弗雷德里克·詹姆逊论证文本的后现代方面能够混淆,如果不是完全消除,任何马克思主义的论战。第一部分论述詹姆逊的《政治无意识》,特别是他对阶级斗争的强调和对文本中所体现的意识形态的认同。接下来的部分通过詹姆逊的模仿和怀旧的概念将《黑暗骑士崛起》视为后现代文本。此外,《黑暗骑士崛起》是在最近一波阶级导向电影的背景下拍摄的。总的来说,我们的目标是在这些电影中确定一种趋势,建立资本主义与不平等、意识形态和后现代主义之间的联系。最终的结果是越来越多令人印象深刻的跨类型电影,它们以各种形式解决当代不平等问题,但它们更多地将这些问题视为叙事手段,而不是对压迫场所的站得住的批评。
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