The Whisper Of History ": New Documentary Movement In Underlying Imaging Studies (1991-2010)

The New Documentary Film Movement was launched in the 1990s in China. After that, many Chinese documentary directors paid attention to the people who lived in the Subaltern society and through those documentaries we saw a Subaltern world that we had never seen. We use the documentaries which reflect the life in the Subaltern society as the research object to this doctoral dissertation. In this doctoral dissertation we'd like to discuss how the Subaltern documentaries reflect the Subaltern society and how to understand the Subaltern documentaries. Last but not the least, we will try to figure out the meaning of discussing the Subaltern documentaries.The doctoral dissertation is divided into the following sections,Chapter One is about the history of Subaltern documentaries, which aim to analysis the image of the Subaltern people. More importantly, without the discussions above we could not understand why TV Documentaries are called as feature films in China in the late 1990s, then we cannot understand how the Subaltern documentaries, which were made during the New Documentary Film Movement, influence us visually and logically.Chapter Two is about the context of the Subaltern documentaries which were made during the New Documentary Film Movement. Besides the social transformation, this section will discuss other context, including the Macro, meso and micro perspectives.Chapter Three discusses how the Subaltern image shows the Subaltern problems. Firstly, the author question the meaning of popularity of effect of visual spectacle in Current large-scale documentaries. Secondly, the author discuss how to narrate in Subaltern documentaries. There are two ways,which include shooting scene of the incident and describing daily life, to narrate in Subaltern documentaries,Chapter Four investigates the Subaltern image shifted from the external to internal. In Chapter Four the author try to present an image of the Subaltern society for us. This chapter divide Subaltern into three categories, laid-off workers, migrant workers and sex workers. The author try to combine sociology and political science with other related disciplines to interpret the text. At the same time, combined with the theory of Subaltern of South Asia, the paper explore significance of Subaltern documentary on historical writing.Chapter Five combines the film text inside and outside and observes the Subaltern image in a perspective view from the relationship between "see" and "seen".Firstly,This doctoral dissertation briefly discusses "whether the Subaltern could express their views". Secondly, the author analyse the ethical issues involved with Subaltern image, which focuses on the relationship between Photographer and subject. Last but not the least, the author uses the post-colonial theory to discuss possible risks if people stand on the pan moral position when they try to understand the Subaltern image.On the basis of discussion, the paper give an overall reflection on historical and cultural significance of the Subaltern documentary during the The New Documentary Film Movement. Then the author gives a brief description of further research as there are several drawbacks in this research.