The Extending Of Literature--Ecological Narrative In American Animated Film In The New Century

With the appearance of world-wide ecological crisis, ecologism rising in the1970s is deeply influencing and changing human concept of living. Considering the interest of the whole ecology system when we have development choices is getting more and more support. American animated film with both quality of art and quality of commodity has special advantage in dissemination of ecologism:its special cartoon art and narrative tradition with animal participating. From the perspective of alternant development about literature and media, animated film with story as its core is the important extending of literature. Base on the ecological consciousness in American animated film’s narrative and the large group of audience all over the world, it’s worth doing narrative research of American animated film. It will be significant to both literature development and worldwide ecological construction.From the perspective of production process, animated film is much more persuasive comparing with traditional film. It has an obviously advantage in ecological narrative, because it cause less damage to environment and animal. Comparing the linguistic art of traditional literature, the way of using image to narrate makes animated film much easier to accept. In the new century, the theme of American animated film expresses the pursuit of enduring values, the emphasizing of environmental consciousness, the exploration of organic ecological relationship. The basic narrative structure of American animated film is a kind of linear structure:balance---imbalance---new balance. The narrative emphasizes reconstruction of balance and expresses the concern about our world. American animated film has drawn its materials from all over the world, its narrative combines globalization with localization. The multiply forms of narrative and fantastic world with different time from real world trigger audience’s recognition to other life ethical community.The animated film audiences are in social world, so their cognition and behavior are deeply influenced by ethic. The extending of ethic is an inevitable course. At the mean time, it is a historical process. The animated film has been related to animal and environment for a long time. As a kind of cultural products, American animated film has been deeply influenced by ecologism in the twenty-first century, it also wakes the audience’s consideration up with social ethic, religious ethic, environmental ethics involved. As the world entered into a new century, American animated film has created many global animated stars which makes more people to be audiences. The characteristic of American animated film communication provide the possibility of worldwide "Cultivation" of ecologism.