评定一个学科的发展程度,大致上可以从三个方面来考察:学科界定是否清晰、方法论基础是否扎实和理论框架是否稳定。考察国内电影美学研究的状况,也应当如此。在这里,学科界定往往成为一件十分关键的事情。学科界定不明,一切都无法进行。电影美学思想不能与电影美学划等号。这一点已为国内电影理论研究的历史所证实,亦应为深入的学理探讨所明辨。确立(或界定)一个学科,实际上就是提出一个问题。美国学者霍兰德提到:“事实上,现代物理学家——不妨说,现代科学家——已经不再将大自然想象为独立于观察者而运行的一架机器。相反是我们就大自然提出的问题决定我们将在大自然中发现什么。(重点号为笔者所加)物理学家的这一态度, To assess the degree of development of a discipline can be roughly examined in three aspects: whether the disciplinary definition is clear, the methodology foundation is solid and the theoretical framework is stable. Investigate the status of domestic film aesthetics, it should be so. Discipline is often a crucial issue here. Discipline is unknown, everything can not be done. Cinema aesthetics can not be equated with cinema aesthetics. This point has already been confirmed by the history of the domestic film theory research and should also be clarified by the in-depth theoretical exploration. Establishing (or defining) a discipline actually means asking a question. Hollander, a scholar at the U.S., said: "In fact, modern physicists - as they say, modern scientists no longer contemplate nature as a machine that operates independently of the observer. Instead, The questions asked determine what we will find in nature (Emphasis added) The physicist’s attitude,