英文摘要 |
Cities not only bear a miscellaneous collection of medium and information, but are themselves medium and information as well. Cities form intricate complexes of materials, activities and symbols, and generate various spatiotemporal experiences with ambiguity. Through a case study of the scene-making in the film Twa-Tiu-Tiann, this paper explores how cinematic scenes, which rely on the actual place but also make up fictional landscape, are able to demonstrate the configurating dynamics of a media city and its potential effects. We argue that the scenes are able to do so through the enchantment deriving from spatiotemporal displacement. The scene-making in Twa-Tiu-Tiann shows that the 'scene' differs from the notions of spectacle, simulation, landscape and so on. Scenes are the co-product between place-making and visual framing. It is often involved in the displacement of spatiotemporal references, and thereby gains the power of enchantment. By analyzing the main scenes in Twa-Tiu-Tiann, we show how its scene-making and film-editing has turned a real place into cinematic scenes. The materiality of the place and the film-watching experiences meanwhile renders the actual place an enchanting tourist attraction. This is a moment of interlaced fictionality and realness in the real world, which works to embody the multilayered appearances of a media city. |