The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944

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Autor(a) principal: Evans, Gary
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v1i1.74
Resumo: This manuscript investigates the facts of publication of the images of the Nanking Atrocity (December 1937–January 1938) in LIFE and LOOK magazines, two widely read United States publications, as well as the Nanking atrocity film clips that circulated to millions more in American and Canadian newsreels some years later. The publishers of these images were continuing the art of manipulation of public opinion through multimodal visual media, aiming them especially at the less educated mass public. The text attempts to describe these brutal images in their historical context. Viewing and understanding the underlying racial context and emotive impact of these images may be useful adjuncts to future students of World War II. If it is difficult to assert how much these severe images changed public opinion, one can appreciate how the emerging visual culture was transforming the way that modern societies communicate with and direct their citizens' thoughts.
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title The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
spellingShingle The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
Evans, Gary
Nanking Atrocity; impact of still and moving images
title_short The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
title_full The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
title_fullStr The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
title_full_unstemmed The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
title_sort The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
author Evans, Gary
author_facet Evans, Gary
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Evans, Gary
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Nanking Atrocity; impact of still and moving images
topic Nanking Atrocity; impact of still and moving images
description This manuscript investigates the facts of publication of the images of the Nanking Atrocity (December 1937–January 1938) in LIFE and LOOK magazines, two widely read United States publications, as well as the Nanking atrocity film clips that circulated to millions more in American and Canadian newsreels some years later. The publishers of these images were continuing the art of manipulation of public opinion through multimodal visual media, aiming them especially at the less educated mass public. The text attempts to describe these brutal images in their historical context. Viewing and understanding the underlying racial context and emotive impact of these images may be useful adjuncts to future students of World War II. If it is difficult to assert how much these severe images changed public opinion, one can appreciate how the emerging visual culture was transforming the way that modern societies communicate with and direct their citizens' thoughts.
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