Postmodern Features Of The Contemporary Animated Movies

Postmodernism is a very sophisticated social and cultural phenomenon, which itself is a kind of the post-modernism and the culture of ambiguity. Post-modernism emphasizes multicultural fusion, theoretically, postmodernism has no accurate conception. The key tone of it was to criticize and destroy the tradition culture. Thus this absolute denial spirit is not only pointing to traditional culture, but postmodernism itself. Modernism is to construct then postmodernism is more to deconstruct and subvertAs one of the expression of films, animation becomes an indispensable portion of mass culture owing to the developments and improvements on contents and expression forms. Unlike elite culture, mass culture has variety features and profound base within the people. With the advent of post-industrial, mass culture has been rather prevailing, thus the patterns of traditional culture have also changed.On the other hand, with the continuous development of science and technology, ceaseless improvements on visual and auditory expression, parody, ridicules and characters of deconstruction have beautified connotation and denotation of the animation.The reason why postmodernism has remarkable impact on animation is that animation is an art displayed with imaginary characters, which is coincided exactly with postmodernism. We can even say that animation itself is postmodernism, which is also one of the features of animation, thus well expressing the postmodernism features. Via sarcasm, black humor and parody, it has changed the original binary-adverse world, so heroes tend to be more down-to-earth. Therefore the ridicule, ecstasy and subversion nature of the postmodernism stand out by the remarkable imagination, aiming to digest and alienate from the traditional films.This work has finally reached a conclusion of the postmodernism features and development trends in animation through the stating of the origination and the change of postmodernism, then an example for further analysis that leads to the link between animation and postmodernism culture and focused on the perfect expression of deconstruction concept, parody and female narration.