Memorable Mirror Rolled Up For Life Itself: On The Culture Function Of Documentary

From the primitive record, literal record and image record, human beings experienced 3 stages. Documentary appeared on the 3rd stage and keep developing till now. by the means of modern technology, documentary records the real world. It also helps people to communicate all kinds of thoughts and explanations to the world. Among all of the art models, documentary is most really true to the real life. Documentary has quite a few functions. Its most basic cultural function is to record the real life and the historical fragments. In process of development, many countries and parties take as a powerful instrument of propaganda as if by prior agreement.With the advance of modern technology, more and more people begin to create documentary. Its traditional functions also change a great deal. On the basic of combing the traditional cultural functions of documentary, the author tries to probe the new trend of the documentary's development promoted by the modern technology.