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From Vérité to Post-Vérité: A Critical Analysis of Chinese "New Documentaries"

Wang, Chi
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258125393

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2009, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film (Fine Arts).
This study explores the forms, styles, subjects of Chinese new documentary from a comparative and historical perspective. I argue that since the early 1990s, a mode combining direct cinema and cinema vérité has been widely adopted in Chinese documentary. The other modes including the observational mode, the participatory mode, the reflexive mode also emerged in the 90s. For Chinese documentary, the 90s can be termed as the vérité age. In the end of the 1990s, signified by the documentary Ying and Bai (1999), Chinese documentary began to break the fetter of direct cinema and opened up a new road to the performative documentary. It is argued that Chinese documentary began to enter the post-vérité age. In this study, I try to put the formal and style changes of Chinese documentary into the specific social and historical context. The “Xinying mode”, which had been dominating Chinese documentary production since the establishment of the PRC in 1949, is discussed in detail. Besides, the 1980s is important for our discussion of the 90s new documentary, since it is in this period that Chinese new documentary began to take shape.
Louis G. Schwartz, Ph.D (Committee Chair)
72 p.
Fine Arts
Chinese new documentary; v&233; rit&233; ; post-v&233; rit&233;

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  • Wang, C. (2009). From Vérité to Post-Vérité: A Critical Analysis of Chinese "New Documentaries" [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258125393

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wang, Chi. From Vérité to Post-Vérité: A Critical Analysis of Chinese "New Documentaries". 2009. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258125393.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wang, Chi. "From Vérité to Post-Vérité: A Critical Analysis of Chinese "New Documentaries"." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258125393

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