| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 101 === Documentaries are always taken as the tools to represent the culture of a society and the most important purpose of making a documentary is to present a way of how people view the events. Therefore, the missions of documentary makers are to convey their subjective interpretation of the ideas, opinions, ideology, attitudes toward life and lifestyles through the images. Also, they have to provide an angle to view for the audiences of different backgrounds, positions or viewpoints; no matter they would listen with respect and peace or question and search for the truth of life of underclass.
There have been a lot of documentaries made whose themes are sports since 1999. Besides baseball, even some unpopular sports have become the themes of the documentaries. This thesis is on the basis of the theory of six modes of representation of documentaries which Bill Nichols mentioned in 2001 and it analyzes three Taiwan sports documentaries <The Football Summer>、<Baseball Boys>and <The Weight of Life> with Kenneth Burke’s Dramatistic pentad.
The research finds out that the three documentaries represent the events by using the Observational Mode, the Participatory Mode, the Reflexive Mode, and the Performative Mode and etc. The films show the audiences of the real life of these aboriginal teenager athletes and their sports world. Through the interpretation of the film makers, we can see the true values and meanings of sports to them, instead of the way to enter a better school or the shortcut to upward social mobility as I always think. To them, sports gives them sincerity, passion and courage; it’s also a home, a shelter and the dreamland to them. These three films show that sports gives them the core values of happiness, positiveness and self- challenging.
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