Introduction to Documentary

Author: Ouyang Hongsheng
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: The book examines the history, current state, and future trends of television documentaries in China, explaining their fundamental attributes, main types, and aesthetic characteristics. It analyzes the relationship between documentaries and society, as well as the major creative schools of documentary filmmaking. On this basis, the author explores many controversial and unresolved issues encountered in the development process, conducts an in-depth analysis from multiple perspectives on the relationship between documentaries and realism aesthetics, the influence of Chinese and Western documentary filmmaking, and the philosophical concepts of documentary creation. The book clarifies the management system and marketization mechanisms of documentaries, and, with a focus on practical issues in documentary creation and distribution in the context of economic globalization, proposes innovative ideas for documentaries and discusses effective operational methods. This book establishes a relatively complete theoretical system for television documentaries, characterized by theoretical depth, practicality, systematicity, and foresight. It serves as a systematic and comprehensive theoretical reference for scholars in radio and television, while also helping practitioners to broaden their perspectives when facing real-world challenges.