Under Cinemetrics Perspective: Research on the Film Style of the New Generation Chinese Directors in the Context of Digital Humanities

数字人文视野下中国新生代电影导演风格的计量学考察

After entering the new century, digital humanities research methodology based on text coding and econometric analysis has gradually penetrated into film studies. Cinemetrics, which uses quantitative research methods and computer technology to visually analyze and compare film texts, offers new paths of thinking and research methods for traditional film studies. Cinemetrics aims to return to film ontology and quantitatively analyze the formal elements of the film, which can compensate for the current Chinese film studies' over-reliance on perceptual experience. At present, the main research objects of Cinemetrics are European and American films, and the econometric analysis of Chinese films is in urgent need of development. Econometric analysis of film form elements can be directly reflected in the analysis of directorial style and film genre, and therefore can be an entry point for the research of Chinese film econometrics. Chinese film directors have undergone stylistic changes from the “intergenerational directors” group before the new century to the new generation of directors who cannot be grouped together. In this context, a quantitative analysis of the style of the new generation of Chinese directors, statistics and visual presentation of the creative elements of the new generation of directors. The empirical study is conducted in a scientific research paradigm, aiming to present an objective picture of the reality of Chinese film directors' creation nowadays.

进入新世纪后，基于文本编码和计量分析的数字人文研究方法论逐渐渗透到电影研究中。使用定量研究方法和计算机技术对电影文本进行可视化分析和比较的计量电影学，为传统电影研究提供了新的思考路径与研究方法。计量电影学旨在回归电影本体，对电影的形式元素进行定量分析，可以弥补当前中国电影研究过度依赖感性经验的不足。目前，计量电影学的主要研究对象为欧美电影，中国电影的计量分析亟待开展。对电影形式元素进行计量分析可直接反映于导演风格与电影类型分析，因此可以成为中国电影计量学考察的切入点。当下，中国电影导演从新世纪前的“代际导演”群体到无法被群归的新生代导演群体经历了风格的变迁。在此背景下对中国新生代导演风格进行计量学考察，统计新生代导演的创作要素并进行可视化呈现。以科学研究范式进行实证研究，力求客观呈现当下中国电影导演创作的现实图景。