| The origin of documentary films on intangible cultural heritage dates back to the early 1900 s,when China’s first film with documentary features Mount Dingjun was made.The pioneering film not only has a far-reaching influence on China’s film industry,but also lays a foundation for documentary films on intangible cultural heritage in China.In 1957,during the rescue of national culture,China’s intangible cultural heritage was gradually known and recognized.At that time,documentary films on intangible cultural heritage began to take root in the clothing of anthropological documentary.In 2003,as the concept of intangible cultural heritage came into being officially,documentary films on this subject had grown up rapidly into an independent documentary style with unique aesthetic value,and was distinguishable from other documentary categories.Today,documentaries on intangible cultural heritage have become one of the major ways for the public to learn about intangible cultural heritage.They are not only undertaking the basic media responsibilities of recording and dissemination,but also performing the important functions of recording and writing the cultural memory of the times.In the introduction part,this thesis elaborates the background and significance of the topic,the research status at home and abroad,the research content of this paper,as well as the research methods adopted and the innovation in it.The main body of the paper consists of six chapters.The first chapter summarizes and sorts out the concept of intangible cultural heritage,defines documentary films on intangible cultural heritage while presenting the development process of the documentaries.The second chapter expounds the three dimensions of cultural memory,observes the participation degree of each memory subject during the formation of cultural memory,and studies the cultural memory function of documentaries on intangible cultural heritage,specifically by analyzing the characteristics with which the documentaries present cultural memory,and by showing the reflected memory function in their narrative process.The first two chapters form the theoretical basis for the following research.The third chapter starts with the "neural dimension",the first dimension of cultural memory.It studies the audio-visual narrative of documentaries according to the memory characteristics of the neural dimension and makes in-depth exploration of the narrative ideographic function of visual symbols and auditory symbols in documentaries on intangible cultural heritage.The fourth chapter starts with "social dimension",the second dimension of cultural memory.It analyzes the storilization of documentaries on intangible cultural heritage from the perspectives of social relations,social context and social activities.The fifth chapter starts with the last dimension of cultural memory to research the significance construction of documentary films on intangible cultural heritage.It looks into the mode and content of the significance construction of documentaries on intangible cultural heritage from the perspectives of narrative symbols,figures of speech and has an in-depth discussion over the construction mode of cultural significance in documentaries on intangible cultural heritage.Based on narrative analysis of documentaries on intangible cultural heritage,the sixth chapter summarizes the major narrative difficulty that documentaries on intangible cultural heritage currently have in their creation,from the perspective of cultural memory,and proposes countermeasures for their development accordingly.This paper thinksthat the current difficulty consists in the following problems— in subject selection,the problem lies in the lack of innovation,resulting in severe homogenization;in connotation,the problem is their short of in-depth cultural description and deep thinking;in narrative,the problem is lacking narrative skills and a good sense of story.Against these problems,the thesis comes up with four strategies for documentary films on intangible cultural heritage to overcome their narrative difficulty. |
