A Study On The Value And Narrative Strategy Of Chinese Social Documentaries

This papper takes Chinese social documentaries as research objects,and puts them in the context of the contemporary commodity economy and society and the mass consumption cultural environment for investigation.First of all,it considers that there are many social values in contemporary Chinese social documentaries.As far as its textual reproducibility is concerned,it has historical documentary value and is a true expression of the present or the past;as far as its image expressiveness is concerned,it has a certain cultural orientation value and has played a role in the formation and development of human society and culture.To a certain extent,as far as a mass consumer culture is concerned,it has huge commercial value,relying on economic activities for value output,conversion,and reproduction to realize the circulation of cultural goods.If its value is placed in the perspective of genetics,it will be found that the reflection of the value behind it lies not only in the original value of the subject text,but also in the choice of its narrative focus.This phenomenon is particularly prominent in Chinese social documentaries since the reform and opening up.Therefore,in the second chapter of the article,a panoramic and macroscopic survey and generalization of Chinese social documentaries since the reform and opening up was conducted.It is found that since the reform and opening up of Chinese social documentaries,there have been three changes in their narrative strategies.That is,from the perspective of textual discourse,under the control of visual culture,social documentary image texts have evolved from admiring humanities to focusing on spectacle images;from the perspective of value expression,it has evolved from a unified value discipline to multiple expressions of discourse,from preaching From the weakening of propaganda to the strengthening of mainstream expression;from the perspective of the commercial culture of documentaries,since the reform and opening up,Chinese social documentaries have paid more attention to the development of commercial value of films,whether it is the choice of theme or broadcast mode or content narrative,cultural popularity and value The preaching component has been significantly reduced,and commercialization,marketization,and popularization have become increasingly apparent.Therefore,it is necessary to comment on the above trends in combination with personal works,and analyze the selected perspectives and narrative strategies used in individual graduation works.This has become an indispensable link in this thesis,and on this basis,the narrative strategies are briefly described.And the existence of social value behind the image formed under the support of the cut-in angle.Generally speaking,as a dissertation on social documentaries,this article attempts to explain the important role of social documentaries in the current social development through the above research perspective,and strives to implement the social value of social documentaries in combination with video practice.