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Cultural Identify:Gender Narrative Of The Hero About Disney’s Classic Animation

Posted on:2014-09-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S H HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330467984988Subject:Communication
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Disney, as second only to Time Warner, is the world’s second-largest media entertainment company which founded in1923. The company introduced the world’s first full-length animated film "Snow White" since1937. After decades of tireless efforts and innovation, Disney created a lot of animation icons familiar to people all around the world. Outstanding performance at the box office laid a solid foundation of the dominance in the field of global cultural entertainment consumption. Disney’s unshakable dominance in animation industry and its enormous influence in the world has aroused the widespread interest of the researchers, whose concerns involving Disney cartoon culture, aesthetics, art and industry aspects. Among them, scholars dedicated to research of communication culture mainly analyzed and discussed Disney animation focusing on successful creation mode and transmission pattern.Previous research has found that after decades of growth Disney cartoons have proficiency in creative mode, such as leading a supporting role to set principles, plot design, language style. Mature writing skills are imitated, referenced and learned by animation creators around the world. In addition to writing their own stories, Disney also absorbs the other national history stories and culture classic and then reconstruct and re-create materials. Extraterritorial culture will be propagated into commercial value and be spread through absorption, rewriting and packing at Disney. Disney in the aspect of implementing multicultural fusion is indeed a model of success, but through the study author found that there is a Disney animated films that are based on gender narrative, whether hero or his hero image growth path, and differentiation of narrative lurks there.For description of art of male heroes, a huge of vivid pictures is used for depicting t he brave and noble spirit of heroes during their suffering growth experience. The male he roes access to success supported by self-awakening of consciousness and support of other s men, and the females are normally in the role for saved in the male heroes’story.For description female hero, the wisdom and charm of women is full in the surface of the story, but the deeply analysis female hero growth and outcome of fate can be found that female growth requires one or more common men, and then she will be to a hero. And when this part of the special women in growth deviates from the social culture of gender orientation, so women will be arrange to conform the gender stereotypes the fate of the end, the return home.According to the above analysis, an accepted conclusion is that Disney cartoon shap e of heroes and hero legend narrative, or implicit or explicit gender differences and the di fference of narrative are based on the social and cultural traditions inherent concept of ge nder and gender role.
Keywords/Search Tags:Disney animated film, The hero image, GenderorientationDifferentiation of narrative
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