在世界范围内，随着全球化进程的不断推进和跨文化交流的日益频繁，移民题材电影的地位愈发重要，成为当前全球电影创作中备受瞩目的组成部分。自20世纪80年代以来，美国华人移民题材电影在展现社会现实及艺术表达方面不断进行深入探索，形成了独特的创作产业格局与文化交流方式。身居海外的电影创作者在全球化语境内进行华人移民题材电影创作，围绕异域生活、移民体验甚至是对于过去经验进行记忆打捞或文化想象进行创作，凭借其独特的双重文化身份和多元文化视角拓展更为广阔的视野。随着不同时期的发展，呈现出各异的创作特点和价值表达，这些电影以其独特的艺术风格不断丰富和深化电影文化的内涵，其发展前景和未来走向值得继续关注。

整体而言，美国华人移民题材电影成为反映华人海外移民历史变迁的重要文化符号，重塑了独特的文化记忆。电影作为一种独特的艺术媒介，以其特定的视角和文化内涵，展现了海外华人在移民过程中所经历的社会与文化环境变迁。本文以文化记忆理论为依托，考察美国华人移民题材电影从20世纪80年代到当下创作生态的流变，分析电影作为文化记忆文本在海外移民社会中记忆的内容，呈现的记忆形态以及发挥的记忆功能，同时反思电影作为文化记忆文本的现实意义与历史价值。

第一章立足于华人移民美国的历史现实，结合文化记忆理论逻辑进行历史分期，从不同历史阶段分析美国华人移民电影创作格局，及其呈现出来的文化转向，探讨20世纪80年代以来美国华人移民发展状况，探究其背后包括政治、经济、文化等多方面成因和发展流变。在第二章、第三章和第四章中依次讨论美国华人移民题材电影中的空间记忆、时间记忆和记忆主体，从电影的叙事空间、叙事时间和文化身份三个方面进行构架。首先，空间记忆部分通过聚焦和探讨影像中对移居国、故国和唐人街的空间呈现，分析移民跨国空间变化和文化内涵；其次，时间记忆部分沿着历史、代际和创伤进行电影叙事分析，按照历时的时代更迭脉络串联起历史、当下与未来，同时在每个阶段的共时维度下分析群体表述；最后，在电影空间和时间的基础上，进而于第四章论述文化主体身份认同的问题，对于性别、种族、阶层三个方面的文化差异进行对比研究，探讨由此产生的身份差异及其表现形式。第五章结合美国华人移民题材电影的影像实践，即电影改编、类型实践及电影节展三种实践路径，通过分析经典文本，思考美国华人移民题材电影作为记忆文本，所具有的现实意义及历史价值。再次从空间、时间和主体三个角度进行阐释、总结与补充，同时也与前面的第二章、第三章和第四章形成交流和呼应。通过探讨美国华人移民题材电影的建构和当代实践机制，更清晰地论证移民电影的存在本质、生成机理和认同逻辑。

结语部分在理论总结全文的基础上，进一步验证论证的合理性和严谨性，同时进行研究展望。对于当下的全球电影市场来说，美国华人移民题材电影占据了显著的地位，再次肯定了电影作为文化记忆文本的功能、价值与意义。基于文化记忆被建构同时也不断被重构的实质，电影创作应在全球化语境下，深入思考如何塑造精神内核并实现有效的文化表达。

In the world, with the continuous advancement of globalization and the increasing frequency of cross-cultural exchanges, immigrant-themed films have become more and more important, and have become a much-anticipated part of the current global film creations. Since the 1980s, Chinese American immigrant films have been exploring social reality and artistic expression, forming a unique pattern of creative industry and cultural exchange. Filmmakers living abroad create Chinese immigrant films within the language of globalization, focusing on exotic life, immigrant experience, and even the salvage of memories or cultural imagery of past experiences, with their unique bicultural identities and multicultural perspectives. With the development of different periods of time, different creative characteristics and value expressions are presented. These films continue to enrich and deepen the connotation of film culture with their unique artistic styles, and their development prospects and future directions are worth continuing to pay attention to.

On the whole, Chinese American immigrant films have become important cultural symbols reflecting the historical changes of Chinese overseas immigrants, and have reshaped unique cultural memories. As a unique artistic medium, movies, with their specific perspectives and cultural connotations, show the changes in social and cultural environments experienced by overseas Chinese in the process of migration. Based on the theory of cultural memory, this paper examines the changes in the creative ecology of Chinese immigrant films in the United States from the 1980s to the present day, analyzes the content of the film as a text of cultural memory in overseas immigrant societies, the form of the memory it presents, and the function of the memory it performs, and at the same time, reflects on the significance of the film as a text of cultural memory in reality and its historical value.

The first chapter is based on the historical reality of Chinese immigrants in the United States, combining the logic of cultural memory theory with historical staging, analyzing the pattern of Chinese immigrant film creation in the United States at different historical stages and the cultural turn it presents, exploring the development of Chinese immigrants in the United States since the 1980s, and probing into the causes and developmental changes of the political, economic, and cultural aspects behind it. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4, spatial memory, temporal memory and memory subject in Chinese American immigrant films are discussed in turn, framed in terms of the film's narrative space, narrative time and cultural identity. First, the spatial memory section analyzes immigrant transnational spatial changes and cultural connotations by focusing on and exploring the spatial presentation of the country of migration, the homeland and Chinatown in the images; second, the temporal memory section analyzes the film narratives along the historical, intergenerational and traumatic lines, stringing together the history, the present and the future in accordance with the chronological change of time, and at the same time analyzes the group representation in the context of the co-occurring dimensions at each stage; and lastly, the cinematic Finally, on the basis of space and time, the fourth chapter discusses the issue of cultural subject identity, comparing and contrasting the cultural differences in gender, race and class, and exploring the resulting identity differences and their manifestations. Chapter 5 discusses the contemporary practice of Chinese American immigrant films, namely film adaptation, genre practice and film festivals, and analyzes classic texts to consider the practical significance and historical value of Chinese American immigrant films as texts of memory. Once again, the three perspectives of space, time and subject are interpreted, summarized and supplemented, and at the same time communicated and echoed with the previous Chapters 2, 3 and 4. By exploring the mechanism of the construction and contemporary practice of Chinese American immigrant films, the essence of the existence, the mechanism of generation and the logic of identity of immigrant films are more clearly argued.

On the basis of the theoretical summary and the conclusion of the whole text, the concluding part further verifies the rationality and rigor of the argumentation, and at the same time, conducts the research outlook. For the current global film market, Chinese American immigrant films occupy a prominent position, reaffirming the function, value and significance of film as a text of cultural memory. Based on the essence that cultural memory is constructed and constantly reconstructed, film creation should think deeply about how to shape the spiritual core and realize effective cultural expression in the context of globalization.