受众面对媒介的积极能动性已经得到了学界的认可。受众如何积极主动地解读媒介内容、其解读出来的内容与媒介所传递的原有内容有何不同成为值得研究的问题。本文从诠释学的角度,以中国观众的美剧观看体验为例,对上述问题进行了探讨。通过滚雪球的方法,笔者对20位自称“美剧迷”的中国观众进行了半开放式访谈。研究发现,受访的美剧迷对美剧的解读与他们各自在中国特定的文化和社会环境中所形成的视域(horizon)密不可分。本文还发现,受访的美剧迷的视域与美剧视域的相遇是一种批判式对话。如果遭遇一些完全与中国传统文化不相容的价值观(比如对长辈直呼其名),中国观众会自发地对美剧的视域进行批判式的接受,即对美剧传递的这些价值观表示理解,但拒绝将其纳入自己原有的视域当中。总而言之,美剧之于美剧迷不仅仅是一个娱乐媒介或英语学习工具,更是他们反思、审视、修正和坚守自己原有文化与传统,即原有视域的一种介质。 Audiences face the media initiative has been recognized academics. How the audience actively interprets the content of the media and how the content of the interpretation differs from the original content conveyed by the media becomes a question worthy of study. From the perspective of hermeneutics, this article explores the above issues with the viewing experiences of the Chinese audience as examples. Through the method of snowballing, the author conducted semi-open interviews with 20 Chinese audiences who claimed to be “American fans”. The study found that the interpretations of the American TV dramas by the interviewed American fans are closely linked with their respective horizon formed in China’s specific cultural and social environment. The article also finds that the encounter between the audience of the American fans and that of the U.S. drama is a critical dialogue. Chinese audiences will spontaneously accept critically the sights of the American TV drama if they encounter some completely incompatible values ​​with traditional Chinese culture (such as addressing elders in their names), that is, understanding these values ​​conveyed by the American drama Refuse to include them in their original vision. All in all, the American drama fans in the United States are not just an entertainment medium or an English learning tool, but also a medium by which they reflect, examine, correct and stick to their original culture and tradition, that is, their original vision.