Cartoon Story

Since James Stuart Blackton had completed the first cartoon< The Humorous phases of Funny Faces>,which is animation by case in 1907,the special art form have coming into our vision, and the history of American cartoon starts. Cartoon with their special art character found their own position in the complicated film genre world gradually. Cartoon has section from ontology of morphological characteristics, which is different from the film, picture, literature, etc. For a century, after the cartoon makers’ pursuit and management from generation to generation, cartoon movies enter into a new age---cartoon blockbusters age coming.The whole paper is always talking about the Hollywood cartoon blockbusters in the new century, combing the texts of cartoon blockbusters in the recent 10 years. According to the cartoon’s peculiar aesthetic characteristics, I explore the cultural phenomenon of cartoon culture deeply, and combine with the symbols label of "banter, reconstruction, fragmentation, entertainment, consumerism", And interpret the cartoon’s culture connotation in Hollywood. So, the goal of the thesis is searching for the cartoon’s culture appeared by the Hollywood cartoon blockbusters’aesthetic characteristics in the new centure. Around the center issues, the overall framework are following:Introduction:Including the originate of this study、the key issues to be solved、the object of this study defined and the review of research in the domestic and abroad associated with this article.The first chapter:The summarize of the Hollywood cartoon blockbusters in the new century. I comb the cartoon blockbusters which is producted by hollywood with the film theory related. It includes of the originate the cartoon gener、the review of cartoon blockbusters and detailed classification based on the different research perspectives.The second chapter:The aesthetic characteristics of Hollywood cartoon blockbuster in the new century. In this chapter, I summarize the a series of new aesthetic features by the "high concept" movie mode. I choose two representative cartoon texts to discuss. I analyse these text by text analysis and comparison analysis which combine with the cartoon’s aesthetic characteristics.The third chapter:The cultural connotation of Hollywood cartoon blockbusters in the new century. In this chapter, I discuss the Hollywood cartoon’s culture appeared in the Post-modern context. I combine the cartoon’s aesthetic phenonmenon and the cartoon art of ontology character with the Post-modern cultural feature. I interpret the inside and outside performances of Hollywood cartoon blockbusters in Post-modern cultural category.