信息传播技术在传播之外还有着传承的属性,新的传播技术的发展推动着历史书写 由精英史向公众史的转向。本文在梳理视觉媒介技术的本性如何丰富历史书写维度的基 础上,结合德布雷关于媒介传承的观点和公众史学的基本理论两条线索,探讨世纪之交 兴起的中国大陆历史类独立纪录影像的公共特征,指出其具有拍摄主客体均为无名者、 口述史纪录及关注共和国前三十年史等特点,这些共性事实上体现出一种建立另类视觉 档案的冲动,无论对于拍摄者、拍摄对象还是观者而言,都是一种在历史意识日趋模糊 的年代重新建立历史感的尝试。

In addition to the function of communication, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a function of transmission. Due to the developing of new communication technologies, the historical writing shifts from elite history to public history. Based on how the visual media enriching the historical writing, the paper discusses the China historical independent documentaries of 21st century by combining the basic theory of Debray's Mediologies and the theory of Public History. It points out that both the directors and subjects of this kind of documentary are nameless, the basic film aesthetics is visual oral history and the era in films are mainly focused on 1949-1978, which reflects a common fact that the directors have a strong impulse to establish alternative visual archives. This is an effort to reestablish the historical sense and its subjectivity in contemporary China.