On Jameson's Film Criticism

Fredric Jameson(1934-)is the most influential Marxist literary theorist in contemporary America and one of the most familiar theorists in Chinese literary theory.This article mainly studies Jameson's film criticism.This article believes that Jameson's series of film criticism practices have an important position in Jameson's huge theoretical system,and his film criticism practices is an important way for Jameson to carry out cognitive mapping in the postmodern society or the era of globalization.The chapter arrangement of this article is roughly as follows: The first chapter discusses the theoretical basis of Jameson's film criticism,that is,Jameson's Marxist hermeneutics.Clarifying the relationship between Jameson's Marxist hermeneutics theory and its film criticism is an important prerequisite for in-depth study of Jameson's film criticism.This chapter mainly discusses the three aspects of totalization principles,historical strategies and dialectics of ideology and utopia.These parts constitute the first three subsections of this chapter.The fourth section starts from explaining examples and proves the above theory;The second chapter discusses the film and postmodernist culture.The first is to discuss the impact of Jameson's cultural staging theory on film criticism,that is,to divide the history of film corresponding to the three stages of capitalist development into: Hollywood in the 1930 s and 1940 s Genre movies,big director films from the 50 s and 60 s,and innovative postmodernist films from the 70 s or 80s;Secondly,from the perspective of the film,Jameson's diagnosis of postmodernism culture is discussed,namely,the loss of depth mode,the concealment of historical consciousness,the demise of the aesthetic subject,the rupture of the ideological chain,and the fall of the critical distance.Three world film issues,the main entry points are Taiwanese films represented by Yang Dechang's "Terrorists" and Filipino movies represented by " Perfumed Nightmare";The third chapter discusses some theoretical issues involved in Jameson's film criticism.First,it discusses the cultural image of film as a postmodern representative.Jameson divided the history of video and visual objects into three stages.The themes are "Look","Otherness" and Postmodernism;Secondly,the issue of film adaptation of novels,Jameson believes that the act of "adaptation" itself can rise to the height of philosophy.He used the term "monumentary betrayal" to describe the excellent practice of film adaptation,and the film is in front of the novel Is a "lost winner";Finally,the relationship between Jameson's cognitive surveying and mapping aesthetics and film criticism is discussed.As a typical text of postmodernism,film is regarded by Jameson as a micro-testing field for investigating the media society and landscape society.Produce a movie and political map to enable individuals in postmodern individuals to regain totality;The fourth chapter discusses the nostalgic movies and magic realism movies,which are representative types of postmodern movies.The two contrast with each other,and jointly present the typical characteristics of postmodern movies.All in all,it is the direction of this article to describe the overall face of Jameson's film criticism and expose the inherent connection between Jameson's theory and its film criticism,so that a series of Jameson's film criticism articles should be given due attention.