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The Research Of Chinese Cultural Anthropology Documentary Under Globalization

Posted on:2011-02-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305988858Subject:Radio and Television Arts
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Since this century, anthropologists and documentary filmmakers continued to explore the usage of video recording to explain and show human's behaviours as well as the new expression of civilization. After World War II, culture and environment all over the world changed radically, which maked people pay more attention to the use of imaging tools to record the nature, social and culture phenomenons which are disappearing or will disappear soon .With the advance of globalization, the whole world is entering a new stage of development, the rapid development of China's modernization, the sudden transformation of social economic and cultural, the increasingly well-development of transport and communications make people's communication of different cultural backgrounds become more frequently, the national traditional cultures blending, communicating and assimilating constantly, at the same time, they differentiating and mutating. More and more traditional forms of culture will disappear without preservation not to mention study carefully, while the disappearance of cultures is non-recurring, if we do not take effective measures to preserve these cultures, human beings will lose too much valuable treasure.Cultural anthropology documentary film is a rescue tool of human culture, through video recording and transmission, it record culture and history, at the same time, it take up the cultural mission of promote mutual understanding between ethnic groups, explain social culture phenomenon, and clarify the choice. It also help people of different cultural backgrounds to promote understanding and reduce the gap. The survival condition of human, especially those at the edge of the state need cultural anthropology documentary to preserve and extend.Cultural anthropology documentary plays a unique role in the process of criticism and education in the matter of China's urbanization, environmental issues, cultural identity and moral issues. While we can use the realistic scene in anthropology documentaries to compare different people and different culture. Person who was photographed is silent, but the movies has strong expression, they will make us self-communicate and self-conscious. Just like Like the Chinese documentary filmmaker Sun Zeng tian said: "The documentary is a mirror of human's self-reflection, human beings need to look at themselves through this mirror, and adjust it constantly for a better future."...
Keywords/Search Tags:Globalization, Cultural anthropology, Documentary
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