On The Cultural Connotation And Character Of The Anthropology Documentary Film

Under the instruction of the anthropology theory, utilizing synthetically scientific method of anthropology research and technique of expression of movie and television, the anthropology documentary film visualizes the achievement of the observation and research of human culture. The anthropology documentary film is also one important type of documentary films, however, it is obviously different from the general documentary film in the creation goal, observation angle as well as concrete photograph way. The anthropology documentary film reflects mainly humanity's survival condition and the evolutionary process of human culture. Besides, the objective angle which is used by a general of documentary films, the anthropology documentary film also frequently uses subjective angle as well as the mixed angle of subjective and objective view. The anthropology documentary film needs a longer time of field investigation, and so on. Therefore the anthropology documentary film has deep cultural implication and cultural character, which are manifested by cultural ideas and cultural function.From the aspect of cultural ideas, the anthropology documentary film has extremely close relation with human culture, thus some core ideas such as cultural overall view,cultural relatively view,cultural vicissitude view can manifest best in the anthropology documentary film , which enables the anthropology documentary film to have deep cultural implication. We can be more scientific and objective about culture which humanity created through the anthropology documentary film. From the aspect of cultural function, the anthropology documentary film can record and save culture, and explain cultural meaning as well as communicate culture .First, the camera has guaranteed that the anthropology documentary film records the traditional culture which is rapidly disappearing in our time, simultaneously, it also has the function of preserving culture which is in imminent danger. Second, inquiring about cultural connotation is the research goal of cultural anthropology, and the technology of movie and television provides a written way to culture and a method to seek cultural implication. The anthropology documentary film can inquire about the potentially cultural implication and explain cultural essence through the expression of profound cultural proposition .Once more, because of the objective description of humanity's survival condition made by the anthropology documentary film ,it promotes understanding and communication and shares different culture all over the world, which enables the anthropology documentary film to play vital role in the aspect of exchanging culture.The traditional anthropology documentary film focuses more on the edge culture of minority, because anthropology discipline presents diversity, the cultural connotation of the anthropology documentary film appears new essence: with the post-modernization as "the initiation anthropology documentary film", "the metropolis anthropology documentary film "as well as our country "the sinology anthropology documentary film" .We have to take seriously and do careful research about these problems .