Frontiers in Art Research, 2025, 7(1); doi: 10.25236/FAR.2025.070108.
Li Zixuan, Liu Kunyu
Communication University of China, Beijing, China
Taking the documentary film "Youth(Spring)" directed by Wang Bing as the object of study, this article applies Baudrillard's theory of mimesis, Aleida Assmann's theory of cultural memory and Appadurai's theory of global cultural mobility to explore the construction of authenticity of documentary images in the postmodern perspective. The article focuses on three aspects: the decentring of individual experience, the plurality of group memory, and the postmodern presentation of documentary authenticity.
postmodern; "Youth(Spring)"; documentary image; construction of truth; mimesis theory
Li Zixuan, Liu Kunyu. The Construction of Reality in Documentary Images under the Postmodern Perspective—Taking the Documentary Film "Youth (Spring)" as an Example. Frontiers in Art Research (2025) Vol. 7, Issue 1: 47-51. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2025.070108.
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