The Significance Of Visual Anthropology Of "the Documentary Of Yu-faction" Representative 《GO To Ttown》

The documentary was born with the film, and the visual anthropology is a subject that was formed by imported the visual technology into the anthropology and it was born with the documentary almost at the same time abroad. In China, though the documentary was not started at the same time of the film that was imported, but the eye view of the visual anthropology has influenced the evolution of the main idea of Chinese documentary and even the materials chosen, contents tendency, the way of execution of the whole Chinese documentary. The production of Chinese documentary was depended on the theory of anthropology.They were awarded much honor at home and abroad, and were widely admitted and aroused many interest. And it led the visual anthropology academic research go out from the back of curtain to the front of stage. With the rapidly change and the development of our society and social cultural, the eye view of the visual anthropology was enlarged continuously at the same time. The study of visual anthropology was not only keen on the field of "Shangri-la", but also concerned with the city and country side and from the west to the east. Today the visual technique and transmit technique develop very fast, and the visual cultural has become the main cultural of the language environment. The potentiality of the visual study tool will be excavated by visual anthropology, and it will deeply research the text meaning about human cultural and social development (especially the documentary which was produced depended on the idea of visual anthropology). So it is very valuable to study this phenomena no matter what from the angle of the creative work of this kind of the documentary or from the study of the field of visual anthropology. Some of the scholars have pay attention on this question, but it's a pity that they didn't pay much enough attention on it, and the study on the theory is still lag behind。It is very seldom to study an individual case about this question."The documentary of Yu-action" is a fresh affair in Chinese documentary field and is one of the representative works. From the plan of the production of it and the chosen of shoot material at the very beginning to the later period of forming the subject and the style are all based on the practical creative idea and the way of observing of visual anthropology,it deepen the presentation of the subject and the style as a documentary by standing on the position of visual anthropology; After a five years long term production, it at last reached the aim of thinking deeply about the reality material of "the documentary of Yu-faction". As it was put on the screen, the rich of the contents and visual language that stand on the position of visual anthropology produced the effects of text aroused a widely interest and study by the visual anthropology scholars and documentary fraternities.