A Study On The Heroic Characters Of TV Drama In Anti - Japanese

Entertainment is an inseparable part of mass culture, but only being endowed with entertainment is not enough for it. The entertainment is valuable only if it is combined with the deep thoughts in mainstream culture. Currently, the TV series with the theme of Anti-Japanese War is common. A prominent Anti-Japanese War TV series will win the audience’s attention and universal praise; at the same time, it also bears more social responsibilities. The Anti-Japanese War TV series show the historical stories during the special period of our country; it also promotes the unyielding national integrity of Chinese people; it is the product of the combination of the social mainstream culture and the political ideology; it is a bridge to maintain the balance between the “entertainment life” and “national political indoctrination”,because TV series of this kind not only conveys and tells the story of this brutal history of Anti Japanese War by artistic means, but also plays an important role in the education of future generations to remember the history, which is much more important. On the occasion of the 70 th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War and the World Anti Fascist War, the total number of the Anti-Japanese War TV series shows a significant growth and the diversified development trend of shaping the character’s image and the details of the story plot is presented. According to the survey, TV series with this kind of theme are displayed in nearly every TV program so far.Generally speaking, the ideology is hard to be expressed by film. The depiction of the heroic image is actually the specific embodiment of the spirit and integrity of a country; it also reflects the national self-esteem and pride of the Chinese people; it highlights the national patriotism and heroism complex as well. It has been 70 years since we won the Anti Japanese War. With the ideological and political thought being loosed and the changing of audience’s aesthetic expectations, there are also a series of changes of characters shaping in anti Japanese war TV series. The hero characters begin to gradually step down the “altar” and a series of transmutation processes of hero image shaping in Anti Japanese War TV series is gradually presented.In this paper, the author selects the typical Anti Japanese War TV series as the research text; takes the transmutation of the hero image as the object of study; carries out the analysis and research of the lens construction of hero images by the comparative analysis method; sums up the reasons for the transmutation of hero’s image and discuss the significance of existence of the hero’s image based on the such results.