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A case study of "Life as a Boil" and the food documentaries

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DOI: 10.23977/artpl.2023.040105 | Downloads: 89 | Views: 743

Author(s)

Yurou Chen 1

Affiliation(s)

1 Department of Literature and Journalism, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

Corresponding Author

Yurou Chen

ABSTRACT

The series "Life as a String" focusing on barbecue, which was launched by B station in 2018, continues to write the legend of Chinese food documentaries with a high score of 8.9 on Douban. A String" and "Small Town Night Food", another food documentary "Life as Boiling" was launched on B station. However, "Life as Boiling", which exists as a sister to "Life as a String", has not achieved the expected positive results as "Life as a String", both in terms of the presentation of food and the narration of humanistic stories. The problems of "Life as Boiling" also represent to a certain extent the bottlenecks of other food documentaries in the "post-tongue" era, or some of the misunderstandings they have fallen into. In this paper, we will analyze the problems of this food documentary in terms of program format, content form and food narrative, and discuss the corresponding countermeasures through the collection of relevant literature and public comments on the Internet platform.

KEYWORDS

Food documentaries; Food content; Human stories; Development issues

CITE THIS PAPER

Yurou Chen, A case study of "Life as a Boil" and the food documentaries. Art and Performance Letters (2023) Vol. 4: 23-29. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2023.040105.

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