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摘要
本文探讨了导演沃里克-桑顿(Warwick Thornton)在《萨姆森与大利拉》(Samson and Delilah,2009 年)和《甜蜜国度》(Sweet Country,2017 年)中对电影情感的积极运用。桑顿的电影描绘了澳大利亚历史上两个时期殖民者与被殖民者之间的关系,这种情感化的历史叙事是为了更深思熟虑地论证自决文化自治的未来。我分析了这两部电影中相互交叉的情感资源,包括沉默期和描绘乡村主观体验的景观美学。我还探讨了桑顿人物研究中的移情作用,它是日后政治推理的基础。桑顿的电影呼吁人们关注不同观众的立场,挑战观众对基本情感反应、情感反应之间的冲突以及随后对这些体验的政治思考的质疑。这些挑战汇聚成一个明确的论点,呼吁土著文化自治。
Warwick Thornton’s Emotional Landscapes: Indigenous Cinema and Cultural Autonomy in Australia
This article explores director Warwick Thornton’s activistic use of filmic emotions in the features Samson and Delilah (2009) and Sweet Country (2017). Thornton’s films portray coloniser-colonised relations at two moments in Australian history, and that affective history-telling is motivated toward a more deliberative case for a future of self-determined cultural autonomy. I analyse emotive resources that cross between both films, including periods of silence and landscape aesthetics that depict subjective experience of country. I also address the place of empathy in Thornton’s character studies as foundational to later political reasoning. Thornton’s films call attention to the positionality of different audience members, challenging the spectator to interrogate foundational emotional responses, conflicts between their emotional responses, and subsequent prompts to think through the politics of those experiences. These provocations are united into an explicitly argumentative appeal for Indigenous cultural autonomy.
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Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication whose aim is to bring together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies in order to present the finest work in this area, foregrounding textual criticism as a primary value. Our readership is academic, although we strive to publish material that is both accessible to undergraduates and engaging to established scholars. With over 40 years of continuous publication, Film Criticism is the third oldest academic film journal in the United States. We have published work by such international scholars as Dudley Andrew, David Bordwell, David Cook, Andrew Horton, Ann Kaplan, Marcia Landy, Peter Lehman, Janet Staiger, and Robin Wood. Equally important, FC continues to present work from emerging generations of film and media scholars representing multiple critical, cultural and theoretical perspectives. Film Criticism is an open access academic journal that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose except where otherwise noted.