| Death is the ultimate problem faced by human beings,and it is also the taboo of Chinese culture.Under the cultural background of "You do not yet know about the living,how can you know about the dea" and "happy life and evil death,death has long existed in the contradictory state of "absence" and "cautious" in Chinese society.Around the new century,China has undergone major changes in social culture,economic structure and ethics,and people ’s concept of death has also changed.After the new century,ushered in a new stage of social development documentary also continued to update the creative concept,to accept more creative subjects.Directors touch the forbidden zone in their diversified and selforiented creations,and embed more elements about death in their works.Based on the concept of death in China,this paper sorts out the domestic documentary works after the new century,goes deep into the text,and intends to explore the content related to death,and summarizes its presentation characteristics and deep connotation expression of death.This paper is divided into three chapters.The first chapter from the cultural,social,media development present situation three angles clear influence documentary death elements present external context.In terms of culture,under the influence of Confucianism,Taoism and Buddhism,Chinese society has formed the traditional concept of "happy life and evil death ","life and death",and emphasis on ethics.In the aspect of social environment,modern society separates death from the inner essence of life and moves towards alienation by means of institutionalization and technology,which makes modern people fall into the dilemma of death.In terms of media environment,the diversified and rapid development of documentary in the new century provides sufficient conditions for the presentation and expression of death.The visual taboos and related censorship regulations of the mass media on death,as well as the ethical and moral bottom line of documentary creation also jointly affect the creators ’view of death and the expression of death.The second chapter summarizes the presentation of death in Chinese documentary works after the new century.It is found that the causes of death are mostly disease,war,violence,disaster and suicide,which are closely related to people or are generally concerned.Death is mainly presented by shooting the dying or dying body directly,using symbols related to death to replace and playing.Chapter three explores the deep expression of death in domestic documentary works.The concept of death in the works are summarized.The independent creators either show the true state of death in ordinary life from a visual perspective,or expose the struggle for death under hardships with a sense of responsibility,or discover and record funeral ritual customs with a cultural mentality.In their images,death has no lofty and complex meaning,is a real state of life.The mainstream discourse is completing the management of society through the construction of the consciousness of death concept.The relevant media embed the death concept advocated by the mainstream thought in the expression of the documentary.To guide people to face death and establish a scientific concept of death;Death is used to construct painful memories,condense national consensus,arouse fear and realize behavioral admonition.At the same time,construct the noble death value concept and gather the spiritual strength. |
