动画讽刺与集体记忆:《辛普森一家》对美国“历史战争”的反思

IF 1.2 3区 心理学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Olli Hellmann
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由于认识到社会如何记住他们的过去对现在很重要,集体记忆研究领域非常关注媒体在促进生产社会共享的历史表征方面的作用。然而,到目前为止,讽刺文学在很大程度上仍然被忽视。我的论文解决了这一差距,并认为,与其他形式的媒体相比,讽刺不仅增加了记忆的生产,而且还提供了独特的修辞技巧,鼓励观众反思集体记忆的构建和维护。我通过对《辛普森一家》(the Simpsons)的一个案例研究,发展了关于讽刺作品的记忆反射功能的论点。《辛普森一家》通过使用虚构的杰贝迪亚·斯普林菲尔德(Jebediah Springfield)这个人物形象来隐喻美国的开国元勋,对美国保守派和自由派之间极度两极化的“历史战争”进行了批判性的评论。我认为,动画讽刺是反思集体记忆的一个特别有力的工具,不仅因为它颠覆了观众的期望,还因为动画无限的讲故事潜力使得它有可能以高度的现实主义模仿集体记忆的政治。
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Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons
Abstract Driven by the knowledge that how societies remember their past matters in the present, the field of collective memory studies has paid significant attention to the media’s role in contributing to the production of socially shared representations of history. The genre of satire, however, has so far remained largely neglected. My paper addresses this gap and argues that, compared to other forms of media, satire not only adds to the production of memories, but it also offers distinct rhetorical techniques to encourage audiences to reflect on the construction and maintenance of collective memories. I develop the argument about satire’s memory-reflexive function through a case study of how The Simpsons – by deploying the fictional persona of Jebediah Springfield as a metaphor of the Founding Fathers – critically comments on America’s hyper-polarized “history wars” between conservatives and liberals. I argue that animated satire is a particularly powerful vehicle for reflection on collective memory, not only because it subverts audience expectations, but also because the unlimited storytelling potential of animation makes it possible to imitate the politics of collective remembering with a high degree of realism.
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