文化神话与身份政治--重读电影《刮痧》的文化冲突问题

电影是再现政治的特殊形式。文化阅读方法考察电影深层文化结构与权力机制。文章通过对电影《刮痧》的文化阅读，超越文化差异的表层结构和文化冲突的传统理解，提供一种多元文化语境中文化选择与身份政治关系的全新诠释。多元文化语境中，文化身份成了漂浮的能指符号，等待主体介入才具有意义。移民受到多元文化冲击，主体意识被两种文化身份所分裂；美国文化本身的纯洁性也被“文化杂烩”形式所威胁，为“惧杂症”所困扰。刮痧冲突，在文化领域是美国东方主义意识与中国“汉化”思想的对抗，对于移民个体则更是文化记忆与认同的冲突。

Cultural myth and identity politics --Rereading the cultural clashes in the Chinese English film Gua Sha

Film is a special form of the representational politics. The cultural reading interrogates what is the cinematic meaning constructed in the deep structure of culture. The present paper picks up the Chinese English Film Gua Sha as an exemplification and aims to transcend the previous understandings in the surface structure of the cultural difference and the cultural clash, and provide an interpretation of cultural identity politics of the first generation immigrants. In multicuhural context, identity becomes a floating signifier waiting for the subjective intervention. Chinese immigrants is shaped by the multicultural form of ethnicity and fragmented between two identities while American host is threatened by the cultural mosaic and suffers from the hybridity-phobia complex. In the cultural field, Gua Sha incident is a battle between the American Orientalism and Chinese Sinization ideologies, while for the individual subject, it is more as the confrontation between the past cultural memory and present cultural identification in subjectivity.