Image Interpretation Of Bloody Nanjing

As the most serious disaster scene in the history of the world civilization, in any case "Nanjing Massacre" can not be forgotten. From December1937to January1938, in a short period of time the Japanese army massacred insanely more than300,000citizens and surrendered soldiers in Nanjing. The miserable intensity of other butchery case in the world can not be putted on a par with it. The fact of Nanjing Massacre cannot be questioned, refuted, and denied, which has been confirmed by the diaries of offenders and the memories and diaries of survivors and witnesses.Eight movies about Nanjing Massacre referred in the paper are Massacre in Nanjing, Don’t Cry, Nanking, Black Sun:The Nanking Massacre, May&August, Qixia Temple1937, John Rabe, City of Life and Death, The Flowers of War. Three recoding movies are Nightmare in Nanjing, Nanking, and Iris Chang:The Rape of Nanking. Four television documentaries are Nanjing Massacre,1937:The Fact in Nanjing, Witness the Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing:the70Anniversary of the Massacre. In the different backgrounds and ages these works established their own the status and functions in TV and movies about Nanjing massacre by the way of image interpretation of history.In the process of image interpretation of history, different artists use different means to achieve the purpose of creation. Although they hope the history can be remembered forever by their creations, these works eventually present the image from the narrative point of view are that deviate from the national position or historical construction have an subversion or defending affect on the audience’s values and the national position in the actual process of creation, and then excellent works and inferior works emerged.The historical fact of Nanjing massacre are not be widely known in foreign countries. Compared with the Jewish Holocaust, international social cognition on the Nanjing massacre less and less. It has been forgotten by our domestic cenozoic groups gradually. Because of the vigorous development of the film and television industry, the image in communication history has an incomparable efficacy than the text. The text has been replaced by the image. The person with the image reading ability is able to understand this period of history in a relatively short period of time. The importance and rationality of images have become an ignorable topic for creators in historical communication.