Under The Background Of Mass Culture Documentary Entertainment Tendency To Study

As one of the dominant cultures of the society, mass culture not only affects people’s life style and thinking model but also gives some impact on creation concept and skills of various kinds of culture and art."Entertainment"--the most distinct feature of mass culture, is infiltrated into people’s daily life, becoming the "super ideology of all words" in mass media. When entertainment is popular, documentaries which are always thought to be serious have been inevitably made to be entertaining.Entertainment orientation in documentaries is a kind of new creation trend which dispels seriousness, sublime, and obscurity by using entertainment techniques, such as selecting novel topics, narration in a way of telling a story, the application of hi-tech and virtual means, and adopting postmodernist techniques, etc. to make traditional documentaries more attractive, interesting, popular and easy-accepting in order to meet the needs of the audience and market under the background of mass culture.Entertainment orientation in documentaries has a profound history origin, but it is fully demonstrated and widely used with the fast development of mass culture. The creation features of entertainment orientation in documentaries is coincide with the requirement of mass culture, as well as the developing law of documentaries, providing a variety of art resources and new concepts for the development of documentary films, promoting the enrichment and perfection of documentaries and their spirit, and has a positive significance for documentaries to achieve aesthetic value and economic value and well received by the public and market.However, we should accept entertainment orientation in documentaries with a rational manner. To be entertaining is an orientation, but not all of documentaries. And not all of documentaries are fit to be made entertaining. Entertainment brings new atmosphere for the development of documentaries, but hidden dangers such as challenging the baseline of truth of documentaries, confusing the extension of documentaries, and causing a blundering psychology of the practitioners also exist. The above problems can be avoided as long as to take a reasonable attitude toward entertainment. Whosoever understands the times is a great man. Since entertainment trend has beard down in a menacing manner, we can do nothing but make full use of entertainment so as to make a liftoff of documentary films.