The Comparative Of Narrative Time About The Animation Films Between Chinese And American

The narrative is the basic way of human understanding and reflect their own and the external world. In ancient time humans have narrative behavior, ancient Greek times began to explore the theory narration, when the1960s, the narrative just really established, and lead the related theory into the narrative animation is the cartoon theoretical research a new perspective. The Narrative is described some events that happened in true or assumption time, so the narrative time is an important direction of the narrative. Animation as an image record the time, the different approach of narrative time will have a significant impact on the cartoon creation and performance. Based on the narrative theory will promote the depth of the animation research.In this paper, as the three functions of narrative time to be a starting point, and use comparison, example, conclude etc methods to do a more in-depth comparative study about narrative time between Chinese and American animation film. Last, it combined with the characteristics of animation film itself to explore the characteristics of narrative time different ways about animation movie, reasons, influence, function and law of animation creation and performance.This article from the three function levels of narrative time:narrative establish function, plots structure function and influence narrative style, to compare and analysis the narrative time between Chinese mainstream animation film and American. This thesis as a comparative research papers, first through the theoretical construction build the comparison system. And according to the narrative time two narrative functions in front longitudinal comparison, summed up the two countries’characters at a level. Then according to the influence of the narrative style, according to the film creation of time sequence, the two countries animation film of transverse comparison. The paper concludes that the relationship between the difference of narrative style and narrative time about two countries in the animation film. Then according to the film creation of time sequence, the two countries animation film of transverse comparison. In the longitudinal and transverse comparison analysis narrative time handling differences, at the same time combine with the film in the social, history and culture background and the audience orientation, the mode of thinking, the cognitive model, aesthetic interest, audience emotion and so on. Finally, according to the conclusions of this article combine with the Chinese animation film development status puts forward references. Expectations for the next Chinese animation film creation of reasonable use narrative time treatment have some references.