纪录片,或者说记录性影片是不是应当具有文学性?这是一个众说纷纭的问题。一种普遍性的意见认为,记录性影片,按其本质来说属于纪实片类型,与依靠人为扮演来图解文学脚本的艺术影片有根本不同,美国“大学电影协会”《电影术语汇编》将其定义为“一种非虚构的影片,它具有一个有说服力的主题或观点,但它取材于实际生活,并且运用编辑和音响来增进其观念的发展”(任远:《电视纪录片新论》)。不管这个定义是否全面,但其核心一点是指明了记录性影片的内容必须取自现实生活,形式上不可能通过艺术想象来虚构故事、人物和情节。显然,如果仅仅把文学性看作某种艺术想象,而“艺 Is not a documentary, or a recorded video, literary? This is a controversial issue. A general opinion holds that recorded films, by their very nature, belong to the category of documentary films and are fundamentally different from those art films that depend on human actions to illustrate literary scripts. The United States, ”University Film Institute“, ”Film Term Compilation“ Defining it as ”a non-fictional film with a persuasive theme or point of view but based on real life and using editing and sound to enhance the development of ideas“ (Ren Yuan: ”TV Documentary New theory “). Regardless of whether this definition is comprehensive or not, the core point is to point out that the content of the documentary film must be taken from the real life and it is not possible to fictionalize stories, figures and plots through artistic imagination. Obviously, if we only regard literary as some kind of artistic imagination, and ”art."