10/22 Charles A. Laughlin演講【未完成的喜劇:50年代末中國電影的幽默與政治Unfinished Comedy: Humor and Politics in Late 1950s Films】
講題:未完成的喜劇:50年代末中國電影的幽默與政治
主講人:Charles A. Laughlin 維吉尼亞大學教授兼亞洲研究主任
時間:2014年10月22日(週三)14:00-17:00
地點:交通大學光復校區人社二館106A室
講者簡介:
Charles A. Laughlin is Weedon Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. Born in Minneapolis, he received his B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota in 1988, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature at Columbia University in 1996. He taught modern Chinese literature at Yale University for ten years, and then served as Resident Director of the PKU-Yale Joint Undergraduate Program at Beijing University (2006-2007) and the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing (2007-2009). Laughlin’s first book,Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, was published by Duke University Press in 2002, with a Chinese translation forthcoming. He edited Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and his latest book The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity was published by University of Hawai’i Press in April 2008.
羅福林(Charles A. Laughlin)出生於美國明尼阿波利斯市。 1988年畢業
演講內容:
Unfinished Comedy: Humor and Politics in Late 1950s Films
This paper examines three PRC films from the late 1950s, “Xin juzhang daolai zhi qian” (Before the Arrival of the New Bureau Chief, 1956), “Qiuchang fengbo” (Basketball Court Hullabaloo, 1957), and “Hua hao yue yuan” (“Happily Ever After,” 1958), based on Zhao Shuli’s short novel Sanli wan, to see how humor both creates and alleviates social tensions perceived in the new society, with particular attention to the depiction of leisure and its relation to work. Though these films were not influential, I argue that they reveal not only the political restrictions on film in the PRC, but also sincerely held viewpoints on how to construct the good life under socialism, and many of the problems involved.
未完成的喜劇:50年代末中國電影的幽默與政治
本次演講檢視三部50年代末期的中國電影:《新局長到來之前》(
主辦單位:台灣聯合大學系統亞際文化研究國際學位學程、
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