Part Of The Documentary Art And Social Attributes

Documentary finds itself columnized when combined with the television media since the late nineteen eighties in China. The columnized documentary has many different arts and social properties, and is distinguished from the classic documentary by basic idea, aesthetic and production process. With the function of the witness of transformation in China and the cultivation of documentary audience, the columnized documentary` elitism is commercialized gradually by the fast growing TV media market in China.This article focuses on the five different but important art and social aspects between columnized documentary and classic documentary, and is back up by the positive research in "folk life", one of CCTV 's famous documentary column, which takes the author 9 months' participating study.