Bumming In Beijing And The Birth Of Chinese Independent Documentaries

From personal angle of view, Chinese Independent Documentaries take records of the course of Chinese modernization in the 1980s and 1990s, the period of social transition, which helps to bring about the birth of Chinese Independent Documentaries. This thesis is to study determinatives affecting Chinese independent documentaries in this period of transition and the basic aesthetics characteristics of Independent Documentaries.The direct cause of the birth of Independent Documentaries is the opposition to the traditional documentaries in the mirror image field. Deep reasons, the encounter and resistance of idealism in this period, for the birth of independent documentaries are discovered through its collusion and homogeneity with the art of the same term, and its sentimentality and retrospection for the transition.This thesis includes two parts. In partâ… , "Bumming", Bumming in Beijing, the first Chinese independent documentary, is analyzed to announce its historical background. In partâ…¡, "Independence", this piece studies its achievements in the communication of mirror image, exploration of vanguard and history recording. The response between partâ…¡and partâ… discovers the deep meaning in the form exploration of Independent Documentaries.