声色现代：中国早期默片的跨媒介经验研究 = Synesthetic modernity: the intermedial experience of early Chinese silent films

作者：Yi 李逸 Li · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.32657/10356/181846 · 研究领域：Chinese history and philosophy

This study aims to map out the intermedial experience of early Chinese silent films from perspectives of the Text and Image Studies. Applying the method of media archaeology to excavate archives ranging from newspapers, fictions, pictorials to images, this study explores the hybrid media origins and intermedial experience of early Chinese silent films. On that basis, the study further examines the dynamics between such intermedial experience and modernism elements in early Chinese silent films, investigating the procedures of modern Chinese subjectification from two different demensions including ‘watching’ and ‘listening.’ From the perspective of ‘watching,’ this study argues that the visual experience of early Chinese silent films is always entangled with other media ranging from glasses, telescopes, Vitascopes, traditional literati paintings, lithographic comic strips, to literary novels. With the intermediation between visual experience and bodily experience produced by these various media, early Chinese silent films finally established a series of ambiguous, reserved and self-subverting visual aesthetics. As for the dimension of ‘listening,’ this study puts efforts on rescuing the historical records of sound performances and auditory experience in early Chinese silent films from the dominance of visual discourse in silent film studies. Based on the audio-visual interactions of early Chinese silent films, this study reveals how auditory experience produced by phonographs,...