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摘要在社会历史和流动性研究中,对铁路流动性的研究越来越受欢迎,为(跨)国家铁路文化提供了新的见解,但对非法流动性、非常规的旅行方式和不受管制的不规则运动模式(如跳火车)及其在实验电影中的作用的兴趣较少。为了填补这一空白,我以最近的流动性文献为基础,讨论了两部风格迥异的实验电影,《倒读加拿大》(史蒂夫·托平,1995)和《波特兰》(格丽塔·斯奈德,1996),它们提供了对跳火车的社会评论,通常与北美铁路旅行的历史和物质条件有关。两部电影都挑战了更大范围的货运流动话语,直面流浪汉的历史遗产,他们被偶尔的过客和朋克流浪者重新想象成资本主义企业、铁路运输服务和失败的资产阶级男子气概的产物。虽然在叙事和纪录片中,流浪汉文化经常作为一种另类的、无畏的生活方式和基于经济或环境问题的个人哲学出现,但《向后阅读加拿大》和《波特兰》对乘坐铁路采取了更具批判性和讽刺意味的态度,突出了其随意的自发性、有趣的创造力和情感潜力,质疑流浪者作为边缘流动实践的积极代理人。关键词:跳车、实验电影、社会历史、非法流动、铁路流动披露声明作者未发现潜在利益冲突。在史蒂夫·托平的YouTube频道https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4LX52AGy5g上可以看到《向后阅读加拿大》。史蒂夫·托平是一位居住在蒙特利尔的加拿大艺术家和电影制作人。托平的多学科实践主要与20世纪60年代和70年代的前卫电影有关,他创作了几部超级8电影,这些电影使用现成的材料来探索城市和乡村景观、时间、空间和电影媒介地点的特殊性的物理表现。《波特兰》可以在Greta Snider的Vimeo网站上找到:https://vimeo.com/79935794。格丽塔·斯奈德(Greta Snider)是旧金山的一名电影制作人。自20世纪80年代末以来,斯奈德制作了几部16毫米的散文电影,在这些电影中,她结合了原始和档案镜头,或者使用了立体、3D、AR和手工处理的图像。她的作品范围从自传体民族志、发现片段电影到3D视频拼贴,重点关注非小说和纪录片形式的故事讲述、人权、压迫结构、妇女问题、家族史、文件和身体。本工作由波兰国家科学中心资助,在“失落的高速公路,被遗忘的旅行:战后美国先锋和实验电影中的公路电影”项目下,通过男女电影人的镜头。UMO-2018/31 / D / HS2/01553)。作者简介:cornelia Boczkowska, AMU英语学院助理教授。她获得了几项研究资助,著有两本书,并出版了40多部关于独立、实验和纪录片的出版物。
Transients, punks and hobos: rethinking the history of train hopping through experimental film
ABSTRACTWhile in social history and mobilities research, the study of railway mobility is becoming increasingly popular, offering new insights into (trans)national railway cultures, there is less interest in illicit mobility, unconventional modes of travel and non-regulated, irregular patterns of movement, such as train hopping, and the way they function in experimental film. To fill this gap, I build on the recent mobilities literature to discuss two stylistically distinct experimental films, Reading Canada Backwards (Steve Topping, 1995) and Portland (Greta Snider, 1996), which offer a social commentary on train hopping, typically associated with the history and material conditions of North American railway travels. Challenging the larger freighthopping mobilities discourse, both films confront the historical legacy of the hobo, as reimagined by occasional transients and punk drifters, as a product of capitalist enterprise, railroad transportation services and failed bourgeois masculinity. While in narrative and documentary films, hobo culture often emerges as an alternative, intrepid lifestyle and a personal philosophy based on economic or environmental concerns, Reading Canada Backwards and Portland take a more critical and ironic take on riding the rails, highlighting its casual spontaneity, playful creativity and affective potential, which questions the drifter as an active agent of marginal mobility practices.KEYWORDS: Train hoppingexperimental filmhobosocial historyillicit mobilityrailway mobility Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Reading Canada Backwards is available on Steve Topping’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4LX52AGy5g. Steve Topping is a Canadian artist and filmmaker who lives in Montreal. Mostly associated with the 1960s and 1970s avant-garde cinema, Topping’s multidisciplinary practice has resulted in the creation of several Super 8 films, which use found materials to explore the physical representation of urban and rural landscapes, time, space and the specificity of the site of the film medium.2. Portland is available on Greta Snider’s Vimeo website: https://vimeo.com/79935794. Greta Snider is a San Francisco-based filmmaker. Since the late 1980s, Snider has made several 16 mm essay films, in which she combines the original and archival footage or uses stereoscopic, 3D, AR and hand-processed images. Her work ranges from autoethnographies and found footage films to 3D video collages, which focus on non-fiction and documentary forms of storytelling, human rights, oppressive structures, women’s issues, family history, document and the body.Additional informationFundingThis work was funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, under the project Lost highways, forgotten travels: The road movie in the post-war American avant-garde and experimental film through the lens of women and men filmmakers (grant no. UMO-2018/31/D/HS2/01553).Notes on contributorsKornelia BoczkowskaKornelia Boczkowska is an Assistant Professor at the AMU Faculty of English. She has received several research grants and is the author of two books and over 40 other publications on independent, experimental and documentary films.
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This acclaimed journal allows historians in a broad range of specialities to experiment with new ways of presenting and interpreting history. Rethinking History challenges the accepted ways of doing history and rethinks the traditional paradigms, providing a unique forum in which practitioners and theorists can debate and expand the boundaries of the discipline.