纪录片的文化批评与对影视人类学的重新认识——从电视文献片《发现卓尼》制作前后获得的启发

影视人类学片，也叫民族志电影，是纪录片种类中历史较悠久者，早期西方纪录片中，影视人类学片占有较大比重。但纪录片的文化批评功能，在早期人类学理论的环境下，没有得到足够的认识。随着大众媒体商业化的发展，特别是“解释人类学”理论的出现，影视人类学的内涵和外延都发生相应了的变化。在新的媒体文化环境下，探讨影视人类学的批评性功能和意义，是非常必要的。

Cultural Criticism of Documentary and New Recognition of Visual Anthropology The Inspiration from Making the TV Documentary《The Discovery of Zhuoni》

Visual anthropology films,also called ethnography films,has longer history in documentary compared with other types.The cultural criticism function of documentary has not obtained sufficient recognition under the influence of anthropology theory.With the development of mass media commercialization and the presence of "interpretation anthropology" theory,both the connotation and the denotation of the visual anthropology begin to change accordingly.Therefore,studying the criticism function and its meaning of visual anthropology is sufficiently necessary.