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1、外文翻译RecreationalTerrorandthePostmodernElementsoftheContemporaryHorrorFilmTheuniverseofthecontemporaryhorrorfilmisanuncertainoneinwhichgoodandevil,normalityandabnormality,realityandillusionbecomevirtuallyindistinguishable.This,togetherwiththepresentati
2、onofviolenceasaconstituentfeatureofeverydaylife,theinefficacyofhumanaction,andtherefusalofnarrativeclosureproducesanunstable,paranoiduniverseinwhichfamiliarcategoriescollapse.Theiconographyofthebodyfigureasthesiteofthiscollapse.Henry:PortraitofaSerial
3、Killerunfoldsinthispostmodernuniverse.Thefilm,whichdetailsthesanguinaryactivitiesofapsychoticserialkiller,wasreadyforreleaseearlyin1986butremainedonthedistributor'sshelfuntil1989,whenErrolMorris,directorofTheThinBlueLinebroughtHenrytotheTellurideFilmF
4、estival(VillageVoice1990,59).AmongtheobstaclesthefilmfacedwastheunwillingnessoftheMotionPictureAssociationofAmerica(MPAA)togiveitanRrating.Thereason?Its"disturbingmoraltone"(McDonough1990,59).FearfulbecauseanXratingmeansdeathattheboxofficefornonpornog
5、raphicfilms,distributorslostinterest.EventhedirectorJohnMcNaughtonexpressedconcernoverwhetherthefilmwouldfindanaudience.AshetoldVariety,"[Henry]maybetooartyforthebloodcrowdandtoobloodyfortheartcrowd"(quotedinStein1990,59).McNaughton'sconcernandtheMPAA
6、'sjudgementrestedonthefilm'stendencytoplaywithandagainsttheconventionsofthecontemporaryhorrorgenre.Whatmakesitaninnovativeanddaringfilmalsomakesitdifficulrtoclassify.Thisholdstrueaswellforthepostmodernhorrorfilm,ofwhichHenryosemblematic.Theboundarieso
7、fanygenreareslippery,butthoseofthepostmodernhorrorfilmareparticularlytreacheroustonegotiatesinceoneofthedefiningfeaturesofpostmodernismistheaggressiveblurringofboundaries.Howdowedistinguishhorrorfromotherfilmgenreandthepostmodernhorrorfilmfromotherhor
8、rorfilms?InthischapterIwillarguethatthecontemporaryhorrorgenre,i.e.,thosehorrorfilmsproducedsinceabout1968,canbecharacterizedaspostmodern.Iwillformulateaworkingdefinitionofthepostmodernhorrorgenrebasedongeneralizationsdrawnfromthestudyoffilmsw
