Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The Nanking atrocity: still and moving images 1937-1944

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.

ISSN
2183-2439
Umfang
Seite(n): 51-67
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Media and Communication, 1(1)

Thema
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Wirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung
visuelle Wahrnehmung
Auswirkung
öffentliche Meinung
Medien
Kommunikation
Emotionalität
Einfluss
Bildmaterial

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Evans, Gary
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2013

DOI
Letzte Aktualisierung
21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ

Datenpartner

Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.

Objekttyp

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Evans, Gary

Entstanden

  • 2013

Ähnliche Objekte (12)