电视纪录片如何叙事,是摆在纪录片创作者和纪录片研究者面前的重大课题。而电视纪录片在叙事过程中所遇到的第一个问题就是叙述者的选择问题。叙事学描述了任何叙事作品从诞生到传播的全过程:作者→叙述者→叙述内容→受众。作为纪录片内部的一个重要元素,叙述者选择得恰当与否,会严重影响这部纪录片的质量。而考察叙述者角色的变化,我们则可以清晰地看到中国当代电视纪录片的进步与发展。 How TV documentaries narrate is a major issue for documentary creators and documentary researchers. The first problem that TV documentary encounters in narration is narrator’s choice. Narratology describes the whole process of any narrative from birth to transmission: author → narrator → narrative content → audience. As an important element of the internal documentary, the selection of the narrator is appropriate or not, which will seriously affect the quality of the documentary. While examining the changes in the narrator’s role, we can clearly see the progress and development of contemporary Chinese documentary films.