A Study Of Political Documentary

As a fresh academic subject,no work or paper of systematic research has so far been found about Political Documentary.Latest domestic correlation studies are the discussion about background and influence of Political Pragmatism Documentary and Pragmatism Documentary which appear in three sections of the fifth chapter named The Road of Joris Ivens in Nie Xinru’s book Research on Documentary(2010 edition),in which Nie Xinru also discussed Popular Documentary in Chapter 9 and Pragmatism Political Documentary in Chapter 11.The main view of They must be represented:the politics of documentary writed by Paula Rabinowitz is feminine,which caused her style more emotional,less rational judgment and logical reasoning.Paula Rabinowitz rarely discussed the fuction of Political Documentary.Paula Rabinowitz don’t think Political Documentary as a independent docememtary genre when she research related films.A Study of Political Documentary:Taking Western Works for Example includes five parts:The introduction is about the meaning of selected topic,literature review and theoretical innovation.The first theoretical innovation is strict definition of Political Documentary.Second,paper introduce the concept of Ideology and therefor gives a bran-new explanation of the filmmaking and communication processes,which is the second innovative point of this paper.Third,the paper broadens the horizon of research,discusses the interacts about the development of Political Documentary and related arts such as Documentary Photography,Political Cartoon,Political Experimental Film and Political Film and removes barriers between photography and documentary,which is the third innovative point of this paper.Chapter 1 defines what Political Documentary is.Political Documentary is a new documentary genre formed by Political and Documentary’s interacting,which serves the ideologic work.The unique function of Political Documentary is filmmaker can use the misunderstanding to serve special political purpose which exists at authenticity of documentary and manipulation of documentary material in fact.Political Documentary raised and formed by politics.Then,paper analyses its difference from peripheral concepts.Generally speaking,peripheral concepts include Sociological Documentary and Political Propaganda.Propaganda has nothing to do whih authenticity,but traditional documentary has a connection with authenticity.Therefor,the difference of Political Documentary and Political Propaganda is in accordance with the difference of propaganda and documentary.The mainly difference of Political Documentary and Political Propaganda is that the former is an instrument of political fight and the latter is a project of academic research.Then paper describes the basic characteristics of Political Documentary:purpose of political propaganda,ideological attack and instigation to take action.Chapter 2 is a brief historical retrospect of Political Documentary.The forming period analyzes the respective roles which John Grierson,Dziga Vertov and Leni Riefenstahl played in their times.John Grierson raise the political function of documentary to a new level during the development process of Political Documentary.The theory of Platform and Hammer are thought source of theory of Political Documentary as instrument.To the development of Political Documentary,Dziga Vertov’s contribution is that he emphasized the functions of documentary material which deconstruct and restructure reality by being keen on compilation film,which provided new methods for ideology which existed Political Documentary deliberately distorting enemy.Leni Riefenstahl’s contribution to Political Documentary is that her poetic political narration provided a frame of reference to obscure artistic Political Documentary.The molding period mainly introduces the early experiences of Joris Ivens,the originator of Political Documentary.And the prosperity period,with the rising of political movements in 1960s,introduces militant cinema and committed documentary.The Neo-Political Documentary of 21st century is mainly about the works of Michael Moore.The last part involves relevant arts such as Documentary Photography,Political Cartoon,and experimental or theatrical political movie.Chapter 3 focuses on the demarcation and use of the conception of ideology and tries to define ideology freshly,because Ideology is crucial to Political Documentary.Ideology is a thought system by which certain social classes political matched certain economic status,and it is systematization and theorization of specific social classes’s world and value outlook.Ideology is the glue of same social classes.By itself political symbol,Ideology can generate a series of political belief,moral integrity and politics lifestyle.The specific ideologic artwork correspondingly reflects its political aesthetics.Then,author narrates the communicative mechanism of ideology,the struggle between different ideology and value judgment of ideology,and analyze the foremost ideology in the history and the Political Documentary form under its control and guide.Chapter 4 narrates the propagation and communication process of Political Documentary in detail and discusses how to evaluate Political Documentary.The main content about the propagation process of Political Documentary is why Political Documentary can appear,what kind of person the Political Documentary filmmaker is,how political purpose in political documentaries is produced,what kind of impact the source of capital has for political documentaries’ tendency,what are Political Documentary subjects,what is the Political Documentary extrinsic manifestation,what are the commonly used rhetoric devices of Political Documentary,how the Political Documentary sets its audience,how the mainstream ideology controls the communication process of Political Documentary,what new characteristics of new Political Documentary have emerged in network times,how Political Documentary is consumed and why Political Documentary will disappear and dead finally.The part of evaluation of Political Documentary discusses Political Documentary’s manipulation of reality and how we can use ideological criticism to unscramble Political Documentary.