Research On The Defamiliarization Of The Network Historical Documentary Those Events Of History

In recent years,with the promotion of the national cultural strategy and the improvement of the national spiritual and cultural aesthetics,film and television works with cultural value functions have attracted the attention of the media industry.Therefore,China's documentaries have ushered in development opportunities.How to achieve better communication effects in the new environment constructed by the Internet is a key issue for documentary practitioners,especially online self-made documentaries based on online video platforms,in order to meet the needs of network users who are seeking new and different,need to constantly explore the breakthrough and innovation of documentary.It is necessary to make continuous breakthroughs in creation and explore the innovation path of documentary films.Defamiliarization,as a theory closely related to innovation,can provide effective theoretical help and practical guidance for the innovative and development of network documentaries.In 2018,Those Events of History was exclusively broadcast on the Bilibili video platform.With the application of defamiliarization,unfamiliar and an experimental new attempt,it opened the aesthetic impression distance from the old historical documentary and approached its target audience.Psychologically,thus obtaining a good communication effect.This article is based on the theory of defamiliarization,combining case analysis and comparative analysis,and discusses the four aspects of the realization of defamiliarization in Those Events of History: the basis,method,effect,meaning,and the aesthetic function and practical impact of defamiliarization.After research,it is found that Those Events of History is based on historical documentaries that tell the content of ancient modern history after the new century in China as the object of defamiliarization(basic);use the defamiliarization techniques of alienation,sudden change and replacement(methods),in this way,the theme is more subtle and interesting,forming a defamiliarization presentation of personal characteristics and a life-oriented dimension.It merges with the "punchline" in the scene reproduction to form a relatively real defamiliarization presentation(effect);The former draws the relation between history and reality in the way of getting close to the audience,while the latter conveys the historical spirit in the way of emotional infection,and jointly completes the new feeling of the text connotation(meaning).At the same time,from the perspective of aesthetic psychology,we can find that the defamiliarization of Those Events of History has played the functions of mobilizing aesthetic attention,meeting aesthetic expectations,and awakening aesthetic pleasure.Those Events of History is a typical text for historical documentaries to achieve defamiliarization.Its success has produced positive effects on the diversified creation of historical documentaries,the branding of produced video platforms,and the acceptance of traditional culture by the audience,but at the same time It also has negative effects to promote the generalization of entertainment,the limitation of the style of the video platform,and the deepening of the audience's shallow reading tendency.