This paper focuses on the 921 Earthquake report image from 1999 to 2009 so as to analyze the ten-year disaster report images since 921 Earthquake. One found that the time distance from the occurrence of disaster events would influence the news discussion subject to change. Because of technological advancement, the images of disaster reports are more and more instantaneous and real; the news reports even blended with the disaster events and became a part of disaster spectacle . This paper believes that in order to discuss “disaster-scape”, one should start from the event theories, media rituals, and image ontology first so as to discuss the fact that a disaster could only become a wonder when it is considered as an incident; and also, because of the report from mass media, the disaster events becomes disaster-scape. Time also functions here, which provides instantaneous and lasting function for the images, and thus the disaster-scape can be achieved. Finally, this study proposes that because disaster events are turned to symbol and became a myth, so it enters the eternity of history and is being memorized collectively. And then basing on this theory, the structure of disaster-scape is proposed, namely it needs to go through five stages including disaster, events, media ritual, myth, and history, at last semiology and intertextuality are used to analyze the 921 Earthquake images.
中文關鍵詞
災難奇觀，九二一集集大地震，影像分析，事件，媒體儀式
英文關鍵詞
Disaster-scape， 921 Chi-Chi Earthquake， image analysis， event， media ritual