A Research For Ivens Documentary

Documentary is thought to be a powerful form of reality. Its moving audio-visual language and documentary aesthetic style give it the ability to bear a dual mandate in the reproduction and reconstruction. As an important content in the study of film and TV art, the documentary is carrying its function in expression, communication and providing the entertainment, especially its inseparable correlation with the contemporary technology development, make the core concept of documentary, "recording" and "authenticity", the great value in reality attention, while the audience can construct a kind of social, historical and cultural aesthetic ideal by accepting and enjoying the documentary. The documentary’s aesthetic value is one of the documentary creator’s eternal pursuits, although the means of artistic expression is different with feature films, the aesthetic feeling communication and the soul of documentaries always be deeply connected. It is also integrated into the documentary works through the creators’consciousness, taking the creators’attention in the created realistic objects as reference, creating through personal thinking, which is the creator’s aesthetic creation process by subjective consciousness. This aesthetic character needs not only to create beauty and pleasure through the exquisite pictures and montage means, etc. but also to show the thinking in aesthetic value by highlighting the beauty of visual pleasure. The thinking of aesthetic value is not single, but always combined with the philosophical thought of the works.As a typical example of documentary research, Ivens has been telling his understanding of documentary aesthetics and the character of the aesthetic features based on his long journey. This article is studying the characters and works of Ivens then explore the documentary aesthetics from his understanding of the "authenticity* concept, the rationality and function of the fiction, the exploration of documentary’s functional character and the dual character of audio-visual language and so on. This exploration will eventually make our focus back to the relationship between the two soul of the documentary, "authenticity" and "aesthetics". And the creation of Ivens himself also put forward some classical and new problems, such as symbols, the multiple styles documentary might have and an Evans as a phenomenon and so on. This article will take Ivens’s life and his works as the main research on the basis of inheriting predecessors’ research results, mainly using the literary theory, aesthetics, film and television art, communication, and critical school of thought with methods of using text analysis and theory induction on the objects, so as to analyze how the aesthetic structure, communicate and affect the viewer, especially what language the main accepting subject is using in the documentary to receive the spread of beauty.The chapter of this paper are arranged as following:the first chapter, as the preface part, is mainly introducing the research background, purpose and the current situation; The second chapter introduces the main creation stage and the key works of Ivens’s documentary, making an concrete analysis film and television language on Ivens’s writing career and key text; The third chapter emphatically discusses the political tendency of Ivens’s works on its documentary creation, using the social history perspective to investigate and make a profound analysis on Ivens’s ideological contents in his documentary work; The fourth chapter analyze the aesthetic characteristics and expression of this documentary art form and have a rethinking of Ivens’s uniqueness; The fifth chapter is the conclusion part of this article, making a high degree of summary on the research paper thesis.