The Documentary A Bite Of China ? Narrative Research

Narratology was introduced into the movie and TV domain in our country at the beginning of the 21st century. The interdisciplinary research not only brings new ideas and content for the movie and TV communication, but also develops new angle of views and methods. However, this newly-developed interlaced discipline research on movie and TV domain has its own flaws, of which the pressing need of documentary's narrative research to develop and perfect itself serves as a good example.The reason why the perspective of narratology is chosen to study the documentary is that the narrative pattern could be tracked by studying the way the documentary is narrated. Thus this research has its significance in enlightening people's way of creating and appreciating documentaries. Based on the analyses of documentary texts, the appreciation and criticism of documentary tend to be more scientific, ridding people of both the conformity appreciation and the randomness and roughness of impressionistic criticism. The profound spiritual core hiding behind the form, namely, mode of thinking, philosophical thinking and life experience can be revealed by clarifying, analyzing and generalizing the narrative structures and forms, through which to grasp the narrative rules and styles.A Bite of China I full advantage of the power of television images, meticulous copy itself into the heart of sophisticated production attracted a large audience ? First, the A Bite of China I picture composition, sound, camera use and so on are superior to many other domestic commercial humanities documentary, In addition, the documentary uses the narrative style of the plot, story, nationalization, the time sequence, the interception of many workers live scenes clips, using storytelling road to the audience, this narrative technique makes it easier for the audience generate emotional resonance.In this respect, the A Bite of China I narrative structure is worth exploring. Whether it is"A Bite of China I" impressive ratings and social effects caused by it, or successful market operation,all that can be a creation of a documentary to provide a reference. A Bite of China I as a relatively successful documentary, the perspective of this documentary more single in domestic research,lack of professional communication research of film and television work, the article's interpretation of the film provides enrich data for the it, while the article is also looking for A Bite of China I text analysis will have a role in promoting this type of research documentary.Among the massive documentaries, this thesis takes A Bite of China I for example. Case study will be mainly focused on all the seven episodes of it. On a basis of the narrative theory and its extension theory-film narrative and semiotics as well as the combination of text, A Bite of China I will be analyzed via the use of textual analysis, exemplification and literature research from the following aspects, namely the narrative content and angle of view, narrative symbols, structure, style, concept and strategies. Starting with the microanalysis, this thesis shows the comparatively macroscopic characteristics of media discourse system and the narrative discourse system of commercial documentary, aiming to uncover the narrative features and unique patterns of A Bite of China I -the typical commercial documentary produced by CCTV. Meanwhile, displays the outlook and expectation of the Chinese commercial documentary in the future.