ABSTRACT “Energy and Eventhood” considers the relationship between infrastructure and the cinematic set piece. It proposes a working definition of the set piece as a distinctly (and perhaps excessively) effortful passage or sequence, and reflects on the tendency for narrative films to incorporate infrastructural sites and structures—such as bridges, dams and pipelines—into such set pieces. A number of writers on infrastructure, as both a cultural phenomenon and a representational object, have noted the aesthetic challenge of rendering it as visible and locatable; this article examines how that difficulty becomes manifest in the infrastructural set piece. It takes as its case studies Unstoppable (2010) and Night Moves (2013), two films noted for their distinctive rhythmic expressiveness, and each one deploying the convention of the set piece in ways that exemplify and reflect on the resistance of infrastructure to narrative containment.

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活力与事件：基础设施

摘要“能量与事件性”考虑了基础设施与电影场景之间的关系。它提出了对作品的工作定义，以明确（或过度）费力的段落或顺序，并反思叙事电影将基础设施和结构（例如桥梁，水坝和管道）纳入此类作品的趋势。许多基础设施的作者，既是一种文化现象，又是一种代表性的对象，都指出了将其呈现为可见和可定位的美学挑战。本文研究了这种困难如何在基础设施中体现出来。以《 Unstoppable（2010）》和《 Night Moves（2013）》为案例研究，这两部电影因其独特的节奏表现力而闻名，