Recorded Image Culture Theory - Contemporary Media and Society

Author: Zhang Hongjun et al.
Publisher:
Publishing Date: 2006-12-01
Features: What is documentary cinema? What are the significance and value of documentary cinema? What are the characteristics of its temporal and spatial dimensions and symbolic communication? What is the essence, characteristics, and value of documentary culture? ... This book attempts to study documentary cinema from a cultural perspective, striving to move research beyond its previous experiential and purely aesthetic forms, examining it with a broader vision and a novel conceptual framework. Thus, it aims to give documentary cinema research a theoretical "a priori" nature, i.e., guiding the practical activities of documentary cinema through the ideal paradigm of theoretical exploration.