王炎新著《美国往事:好莱坞镜像与历史记忆》,收入他近年所写关于美国当代电影与政治文化的十几篇文章。文章往往从现象和个人感受出发,由分析而逐渐写到思想与文化问题。这类文字近年来日渐流行,可称为文化随笔或评论,意义都在于做一种“文化研究”。但王炎与众不同之处,是他的“文化研究”异常鲜明地突出个人的切身经验直感,思 Wang Yan’s new article, “The Past of the United States: Hollywood Mirror and Historical Memory,” included more than a dozen articles he wrote in recent years on contemporary American film and political culture. Articles tend to start from the phenomenon and personal feelings, from the analysis and gradually wrote the ideological and cultural issues. Such texts have become increasingly popular in recent years and can be called cultural essays or commentary, all in the sense of making a “cultural study.” However, the difference between Wang Yan is that his “Cultural Studies ” highlights the individual’s immediate experience in an unusual manner,