Iconography of National Mourning in Polish Press  

作　　者：Magdalena Mateja 

机构地区：[1]Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

出　　处：《Journalism and Mass Communication》2012年第11期1063-1072,共10页新闻与大众传媒（英文版）

摘　　要：By the law, the highest-ranking state officials announce national mouming in response to death of prominent persons. The concept of mourning should be understood both as way of showing grief in public spaces and a period of time. In turn, the concept of iconography means a collection of illustrations, paintings, prints, drawings relating to a person, place or topic. President of Poland, his wife and other 94 people died in the Smolensk plane crash on April 10, 2010, thus the images of plane crash and its outcome published in different segments of Polish press are the subject of the article. Research based on methods such as interpretation of composition and semiotics. I started my analysis with a few hypotheses： （1） The cultural background, especially religious, determines the mourning visual representation; （2） The result of certain style of visualization can be constructing of a political myth; （3） Different means can be used by mass media in adapting culture patterns process; （4） Different photographic genres can be used to illustrate the mourning; and （5） Press segments differ in way/style of mourning visualization.

关 键 词：national mourning journalistic photography photographic genres Smolensk plane crash presidentLech Kaczynski visualization magazines 

分 类 号：V328[航空宇航科学与技术—人机与环境工程] G239.22[文化科学]