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Entering the 21st century,in the context of cultural globalization,American animation movies,which are based on the advanced technology,innovative ideas,and the mature industrial production,enjoy a good reputation in the whole world.The animation movies have become an important type of American films,and the animation industry has become an important pillar industry of the United States.While Chinese animation movies fell into quietness after former days' resplendence.Compared with the American animation industry,the Chinese animation industry has the obvious disparity in various aspects,and the most fundamental one is the concept of animation creation.Therefore this thesis selects more than forty US classical animation movies from the perspective of studying to analyze in details with the method of text analysis.At the same time,it analyzes where the "Chinese school" animation movies' charm lied in.According to the contrast of Sino-US animation movies which were after the 90s,this thesis discusses the Chinese animation movies' backwardness,and hopes to bring an inspiration to the Chinese animation movies' manufacture as well as improve the Chinese animation movies' theoretical system.This thesis analyzes the text of the selected American animation films using the interrelated theories of communication,the film and television psychology,and the film and television esthetics and linguistics,and uses the method of case studies and comparison analysis.The paper's first chapter studies the American animation movies' theme from the perspective of cultural transformation,the embodiment of the spirit of the United States,the audience positioning,the fairy tale complex,and emotional sign.The second chapter explains the animation character's characteristics in detail from the personalities of the animated characters, the two person or multi-people teams up,and animated characters' modeling and so on.The third chapter pays attention on the painting style,CG technology,scenes,color,animation music, animation dubbing,and characters' language.The fourth chapter explains the narrative approach of the American animation movies from the dramatic structure,montage and narrative point of view.The fifth chapter firstly states the Chinese animation movies' history,and then gives the detailed explanation of animation movies' national characteristic of "Chinese school".At last it compares the text characteristics of Sino-US animation movie which were after the 90s,and discusses the Chinese animation movies' disparity thoroughly which exists in the creation idea.Through American animation movies we know that the American animation movies' success is an accurate grasp of the cinema audience's anticipation psychology which also means directional anticipation and innovational anticipation.There are full of the pure friendship,the sincere love,deep affection,the truth of good win evil,the happy ending,the sensational plot, the joyful life ideas,the ubiquitous childlike innocence as well as humanity care in the American animation movies,which achieve the ideal desire that the people can't realize in the reality through the screen's illusion world and fulfill the audience's directional anticipation.While the bold creativity,exquisite CG technology,the fashion and sharp clothing,the magnificent scene, the funny and lovely characters,and the changeable lens language made the audience find everything new and fresh and satisfied audience's visual pleasant sensation and the innovational anticipation enormously.Therefore,if the Chinese animation movies want to revive the past glory,it must know the audience psychology and step with the time besides unearth the rich Chinese national culture resources deeply.Only in this way can we turn the comer and create greater glories.