Deconstructing National Community: Regarding Anti-Japan Propaganda Films in Long Seventies

• Main Authors: Wang, Luo, 王珞
• Other Authors: Liu, Joyce C.H.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6npx89

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 社會與文化研究所 === 106 === This thesis focuses on the anti-japan propaganda films produced by Central Motion Picture Corporation(CMPC) in the 1970s and the early 1980s. At the beginning of the 1970s, the Kuomintang (KMT) government was encountered a diplomatic crisis. This external condition undermined the legitimacy of the Republic of China’s(R.O.C.) claim that they were the true representative of China. Meanwhile, although the martial law was still in effect, the uprising social-political movement occurred inside the island also menaced the authoritarian regime of the KMT government. The KMT government was eagerly seeking fora solution to reduce the damage and rebuild the sovereignty. On the on hand, film was an ideal medium to conduct propaganda, because official ideologies can be transmitted in an unassuming and innocuous way. On the other hand, benefiting from the maturation of the Taiwan film industry in the 1970s, such as advancing technologies, professional film crews and vibrant film markets, CMPC was enabled to make blockbuster films. Based on these main factors, plenty of anti-japan propaganda films emerged during this period. In this thesis, I would like to pay close attention to six representative anti-japan propaganda films. In my analysis, i will inspect the embedded official ideologies and their variations along with corresponding social-political situations. Following the path of film production, I also discuss how the KMT government reconstructed the national community in Taiwan after World War II. Those patriotic measures of compulsory education and social cultivation resulted in a specter of right-wing politics haunting the society even today.