Image Production And Collective Memory

It has been seventy years since Nanking massacre . But the problem of Nanking massacre hasn ' t been settled . The government of Japan hasn ' t apologized for Nanking massacre . The right wingers deny Nanking massacre in Japan . It is most important we don ' t wake up to the importence of Nanking massacre for the civilization of human being and we don ' t pay attention to the education of Nanking massacre after new China was built . It results in the ignorance of Nanking massacre for lots of people .It is very lucky we have a strongly tool to transfer memory-movies with the development of technology . Nanking massacre in movies narrows the gap between the audience and the space time by real image or fictitious image . It conveys to the audience not only the history of image reproduction but also strong national feelings .In the dissertation , the movies of Nanking massacre will be studied . The writer will analyse the connection among ideology, the diplomatism between China and Japan , people at home at different times when the image of Nanking massacre were reproduced . At the same time , the dissertation concludes the movies of Nanking massacre complete the reproduction of historical memory during the consumption of culture through the copying of memory .