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Constructing identity through empathy: A study of emotional narrative in oral history documentaries

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DOI: 10.23977/mediacr.2024.050307 | Downloads: 25 | Views: 284

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Lian Yaqian 1

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1 Xi'an Peihua University, Xi'an, Shanxi, 710199, China

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Lian Yaqian

ABSTRACT

Emotionality is a representation of artistic life and is undoubtedly the core of empathy. Only when a work of art reaches the emotional level can it have lasting significance. Based on the media practice analysis of the oral history documentary "Remember", this article explores the path of the emotional power of oral history documentaries. It is found that it evokes empathy by focusing on individual memories, constructs a holographic space to strengthen and consolidate the empathetic experience, and finally achieves the sublimation of empathy by calling on national identity. This process from emotional arousal to emotional stabilization and finally to sublimation has achieved a clear path for oral history documentaries to construct national identity.

KEYWORDS

Empathy; oral history; documentary; national identity

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Lian Yaqian, Constructing identity through empathy: A study of emotional narrative in oral history documentaries. Media and Communication Research (2024) Vol. 5: 47-52. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2024.050307.

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