Documentary Inheritance And Context Change

In the past twenty years, though Chinese documentary film has experienced great transformation. Nowadays, it still can't adjust itself to the new film system and the new market system. However, it has launched an era of the documentary film that has a profound effect on the film industry. At first, it was separated and criticized, then, as the time goes by, it receives great concerns and deserves special attention. Domestic film industry has also changed its attitude and learnt how to tell about the documentary film in the point of Italian new realism. This article tries to separate from the traditional way and research Italian film and Chinese documentary's cultural background, representations and development from the point of macro- micro context view.This article chooses Italian new realism representative work The Bicycle Thief and Chinese documentary representative work Blind Shaft as research subjects, applying comparative studies and content analysis, documentary ways to find their identity in the form of sociality authenticity, artistry and their differences under the space context, cultural context and humanistic context,so the conclusion as follows:1,Define the social cultural relationship between Italian new realism film and Chinese documentary film. The latter succeeds to the former, but possesses its distinctive features.2,With the background of global cultural blending, Italian new realism film and Chinese documentary film exist in different ways. The former exist as model influencing the latter, the latter absorb their quintessence and discard their dross.According to typical examples'comparative analysis, the purpose is to make it clear that the relationship between Italian new realism film and Chinese documentary film, and what's more, predict the future of Chinese documentary film.