Research on Narrative Strategies and Innovations of Netflix Documentaries in the Grierson Model: Take Documentary City of Wonder as An Example

Abstract

With the continuous development of the Internet, Netflix Documentary have emerged as a new form of documentary in the public eye. Netflix documentaries both inherit the creative features under the Grierson model and make artistic innovations based on it. The Grierson model has always been the classic form of documentary creation. Under the Grierson mode, this paper takes the documentary City of Wonder as a case study. The study finds that:1)in terms of narrative perspective, the documentary still uses third-person narration as an perspective for interpretation, which has both networked communication qualities; 2)in terms of narrative content, it adheres to the tradition of people-oriented and reality observation, but highlights the embedding of urban cultural imagery; 3)in terms of narrative time and space, it uses parallel montage and other editing techniques to enrich the narrative space; 4)in terms of narrative structure, it uses the aesthetics of reception; 4)in terms of narrative structure, the structure of invocation in the concept of reception aesthetics is used, in order to leave an blank and complement the meaning of the text.