西方纪录片理论界习惯地把纪录片区分为两种性质：人类学的和社会活动的。《英国牛津现代高级英汉双解词典》对于纪录片（Ｄｏｃｕｍｅｎｔａｒｙ）的解释是：“展示人类或社会活动的电影或电视影片”。人类学的纪录片还被看成纪录片的最传统的类型。正如美国学者玛莎·福... Western documentary theory has traditionally divided documentaries into two categories: anthropological and social. Documentary is explained in the Oxford Dictionary of Advanced English-Chinese Errors: “A movie or television film showing human or social activity.” Anthropological documentaries are also seen as the most traditional type of documentary. Just as the American scholar Martha Fu ...