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在一次学术会议上,一位知名的澳洲女学者和另一位华裔美国学者激烈地辩论起来。引发这场辩论的不是什么学术或理论问题,而是最近上映的一部电影《泰坦尼克号》(港译《铁达尼号》)。这位美国来的男学者是一个彻头彻尾的高级知识分子,他对此片当然是不喜欢的,他说实在受不了片中的溫隋主义,故事又庸俗不堪,实在搞不通片子为什么会这么卖座,言下之意当然有点揶揄一般观众的无知,竟然甘愿受好莱坞之骗。但更令我吃惊的是这位澳洲来的女学者,她是澳洲文化研究理论的健将,而且在著作和言论中时常反抗政府,不料她一听美国
At a conference, a well-known Australian women scholars and another Chinese American scholar debated intensely. What sparked this debate was not academic or theoretical issues, but a recently released movie Titanic. The American male scholar is a thoroughgoing senior intellectual. Of course he does not like this film. He really can not stand the warmth and the doctrine of the film. The story is so vulgar that it is unreasonable to see why the film is so popular. , Implying that of course a bit 揶 揄 general ignorance of the audience, even willing to be fooled by Hollywood. But what amazed me even more was that the Australian-born female academician, a master of the Australian theory of cultural studies, often defied the government in her writings and remarks,