The World Truth Of The Idealists

With the development of Globlization, Informatization and Commercialization since the20th century, documentary, as one media form of the public discourse and visual language, faces the relocating of itself identification and the summarization of itself value tradition. While in the rapid expansion of visual culture and new website technology, idealism also faces the realistic dilemma that entertainment, diversification, fragmentation and consumerism make a great clamor.What’s interesting is that the author finds that documentaries have the tight relationship with idealism since their emerging during the author hackles many direction works of documentaries. The documentary works by directors, from Robert Flaherty to Ogawa Shinsuke, are based on both the idealism which is built on the idealism and the development history of its variant throughout the documentary, which is existed as a philosophy position and political discourse independent on the image technology and visual language.This thesis simply hackles the penetrating, invasion and surrounding of visual culture to our present life, and then thinks about the possibility of documentaries being one method of discovering fact and truth, from the cave metaphor in the Republic by Plato. With the analysis of the above directory works, this thesis discusses documentary’s spiritual feature and idealism tradition. How the documentary gets involved in public discourse and provides critic knowledge in the face of double fences---Hegemony monologue and no blame ramble? Whether the documentary workers undertake the role of observers and critics and provide one new dimensions of Epistemology when new technology and new media gradually make the whole world connected and then rule the world or when visual reading becomes the main media of people for getting the information? And whether realism provides spiritual resource for real political criticism of documentary?...