Revisiting Image Ethnography Of Documentary Film On The Social History And Science Of China's Ethnic Minorities

“ Documentary film on the social history and science of China's ethnic minorities” from 1950 s to 1980 s is collection of 21 video ethnographic works of 16 ethnic minorities in China.Its purpose is to record the social status of ethnic minorities before their liberation and provide information for scientific research.At the same time,this batch of ethnographic works were produced by ethnologists,anthropologists,sociologists,filmmakers and other fields under the specific creation mode.It is the earliest type of image ethnography since the founding of the People's Republic of China.From the content has the literature data value.In terms of form,it has academic significance and reflective value to the contemporary film and television anthropology,and is a film and television cultural heritage left by the national consciousness.Just as professor Bao Jiang thinks," Documentary film on the social history and science of China's ethnic minorities tablets are independent academic innovation on the 'root'.In the course of ethnographic film and the general category of "film scholarship"(as opposed to "literary scholarship")in the future,it has irreplaceable eternal value,and its academic meaning needs to be explored from different angles.Since the 1990 s,some film and television anthropologists have revisited the filming sites of documentary film on the social history and science of China's ethnic minorities.In the image ethnography,which uses audio-visual language to express the research results,the paradigm of image text has changed with the change of image creation trend,recording equipment and many other factors.This paper attempts to explain the changes and deepening from the perspectives of the shooting method,the relationship between the shooting,the transformation of the photographer and the photographed.Image revisit performance of ethnic culture change in the content at the same time,through the image before and after the link text,image analysis revisit to the cultural content of "image trace",explore methodology of ethnographic research image revisit as image meaning and value,at the same time reflection image revisit prerequisite conditions and difficulty of implementation.