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On the Relationship Between the Documentary Film and the Ruling Party

  

  • Received:2012-08-23 Online:2012-11-15 Published:2012-11-15

Abstract:

uch involved with the ruling party and its ideology, the documentary film, which is a major platform of mass media, has worked since its birth as an important channel for the ruling party to implement lines, principles, policies and ideologicalization. Through longtime development, the relationship between the documentary film and the ruling party has become close and complex: working as a main cultural strategy to make political propaganda, the documentary film is controlled by the ruling party all the time; influencing the policies and strategies of the ruling party, the documentary film as the representative mass medium in the 20th century is always employed by the ruling party in various ways.

Key words: ideology, the documentary film, the documentary, the ruling party

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