摘要
政治传播学者们通常将新闻电影视为经历二战考验的基于文本的纸媒与形成于二十世纪六十年代末的以视觉为导向的电子媒体的分水岭。然而这一主流观点并不全面,因为它忽视了基于纪录短片的全球视觉新闻报道系统。早在一战前,每周发行两次新闻记录电影的全球发行系统就已经形成,这比电视新闻早将近半个世纪,也比CNN向全球各地同时发布新闻报道早70年。本文旨在唤起政治传播学术研究对新闻记录电影的历史重要性的关注。
Scholars of political communication often mark the increasing popularity of the electronically broadcasted news film as a dividing line between a text-based information culture that survived through World War II and a visually oriented electronic information culture that was in place by the late 1960s. Yet this mainstream view is incomplete, for it neglects a forgotten but extremely popular worldwide system of visual news reporting based on documentary film shorts. A global system for distributing biweekly newsreels was already in place before the First World War, nearly half a century before television news would begin to attract large national audiences and seven decades before CNN would begin distributing news footage once again to all corners of the world. This article aims to reorient the scholarship on political communication to the historical importance of the newsreel medium.
关键词
新闻记录电影
纪录短片
前电视新闻报道
软新闻
全球新闻报道
Newsreels
Documentary Short Films
Pretelevision News Broadcasts
Soft News
Global News Broadcasting
