A Study On The Visual Narrative Of Anti-Japanese War Memorial Posters In Mainstream Media

The victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is a rich and colorful stroke in the history of the development of the Chinese nation,commemorating the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is both a requirement of history and the times,and the commemorative poster of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is one of the important ways to commemorate the War of Resistance Against Japan.The mainstream media shoulder the important responsibility of publicizing the party’s principles and policies,disseminating mainstream ideology,promoting social righteousness,and guiding public opinion.As the ears and mouthpieces of the Party,the government and the people,the mainstream media represented by China Central Radio and Television Station and People’s Daily released commemorative posters of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression on the anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to remind the public to remember the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and awaken memories related to the War of Resistance Against Japan.The commemorative poster of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression composed of words,pictures and colors is a flat two-dimensional image,which is used by mainstream media as a carrier of visual narrative to commemorate the War of Resistance Against Japan,which is of great significance for remembering the history of the War of Resistance,remembering the compatriots who died,carrying forward the spirit of the War of Resistance and developing a peaceful future.As a visual representation of the commemorative war of resistance against Japanese aggression released by mainstream media,the national emotions and feelings of home and country carried by it are of great significance to play a role in commemorating the War of Resistance Against Japan,and the profound connotation and commemorative value of the image itself also need to be paid attention to.This paper separates the emotions wrapped in the commemorative poster from the image content of the commemorative poster itself,and further analyzes the historical role and epochal significance of the images of the mainstream media commemorative poster by analyzing the visual narrative background,visual narrative language,visual narrative mechanism and visual narrative value of the mainstream media commemorative poster.This paper first analyzes the background of the visual narrative of the commemorative posters of the Anti-Japanese War released by mainstream media,including the importance of commemorating the Anti-Japanese War,the responsibility of mainstream media in ideological construction,and the suitable microblog platform for disseminating images with public value in the era of reading pictures.The second part of this paper starts from the visual narrative language of posters,analyzes the visual narrative language of posters,that is,text language,picture language and color language,analyzes the visual narrative language of mainstream media commemorative posters of the Anti-Japanese War,and studies how these visual narrative languages realize the visual expression of commemorative posters of the Anti-Japanese War.The third chapter analyzes the visual narrative mechanism of the Anti-Japanese War commemorative poster,focuses on the framework of visual grammar theory to analyze the meaning of images,analyzes the image significance of the Anti-Japanese War commemorative poster from the three levels of image reproduction meaning,image interactive meaning and image composition meaning,and expounds the powerful narrative function of the Anti-Japanese War commemorative poster image.Chapter 4 mainly analyzes the value of visual narrative of commemorative posters of the Anti-Japanese War,including the generation of cultural memory and the implantation of prosthetic memory.The Anti-Japanese War commemorative poster invokes the underlying cultural memory and constructs the current cultural memory,playing the role of cultural memory in establishing an individual’s self-image.The pictures used in the Anti-Japanese War commemorative poster are mostly true portrayals of the history of the Anti-Japanese War,and the audience has non-personal experience when watching photos that record the history of the cruel war,and the formation of prosthetic memory can help the audience empathize with the cruel facts of history,more deeply understand the Anti-Japanese War,and enrich the understanding of the commemoration of the Anti-Japanese War.