快速僵尸与社会权利：翁贝托-伦齐的《梦魇之城》（1980 年）案例

IF 0.1 4区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

FILM CRITICISM Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI:10.3998/fc.5694

Alberto Iozzia

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在 1981 年 5 月意大利就堕胎问题举行全民公决之前的紧张气氛中，翁贝托-伦齐（Umberto Lenzi）的《梦魇之城》上映了。梦魇之城》被列入多个 "最佳僵尸电影 "榜单，其重要性至少有两个原因：首先，它开创了僵尸形象的一个重要变体：快速僵尸，并最终获得成功；其次，它是对 20 世纪 70 年代末和 80 年代初最突出的社会争论--意大利妇女自决问题--的评论。伦齐影片的美学和隐喻层面紧密相连，被感染的人喝着别人的血四处奔跑，体现了对正在进行的社会变革的反动反应。梦魇之城》加入了 20 世纪 70 年代末的意大利政治纷争，公开反对妇女的选择自由，并引导和放大了这场准末世论斗争中最保守的一面。

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Fast Zombies and Social Rights: The Case of Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City (1980)

In the tense atmosphere that preceded the May 1981 Italian referendums on abortion, Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City is released. Included in several ‘Best Zombie Movies’ lists, Nightmare City is important for at least two reasons; first, because it inaugurates a significant and eventually successful variation on the zombie image: the fast zombie; second, as a commentary on the most salient social debate of the late 1970s and early 1980s – the one on the self-determination of Italian women. The aesthetic and the metaphorical levels of Lenzi’s film are strictly connected and the infected people running around drinking the blood of others are the embodiment of a reactionary response to the ongoing social transformation. Nightmare City joins the Italian political dispute of the late 1970s by openly opposing the women’s freedom of choice and by channeling and amplifying the most conservative side of that quasi-eschatological battle.

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