A Study On Mark Osborne's Works From The Perspective Of Cross Cultural Communication

With the globalization of culture and information,every kind of culture starts to be in line with the world and the media also changes from cultural communication to cross-cultural communication.At the same time,globalization has become the theme which all human beings pay much attention to.As an important means of cultural communication,Animated Film has the ability to satisfy more and more audience.Therefore,it has a huge market.Under globalization,animation which is a form a communication is destined to be affected.Therefore,animation creators who are from different countries begin to explore the way to link animation and the world.Mark Osborne's cartoon has been a big concern,and his animated films are characterized by cross-cultural perspective and classical adaptation.In 2008,the classical animation Kung Fu Panda had a huge response as soon as it released,which has been an extremely popular animation in audiences' hearts.Mark Osborne mixed Chinese elements and American culture,which successfully broke down audiences' culture barrier and brought native American culture and values to the world.In 2015,the animation The Little Prince which is a classical French work was adapted by Mark Osborne and also brought strong visual impact to the audience.Mark Osborne deconstructed the story original of The Little Prince,and at the same time,he added some creative elements and adapted it into an animation.As a literary work,The Little Prince has been translated into more than 250 languages and has a global circulation of 500 million copies.It is regarded as the most widely circulated book after the Bible.As an animated film,it also made a huge success through the adaptation of Mark Osborne.The thesis is going to study the creative elements of animation films including Kung Fu Panda and The Little Prince from different perspectives.And the thesis is going to study the communication strategies and their cultural characteristics in animation films commonly used by the directors.In addition,the thesis is going to study the way to help animation films communicate in different cultures.What should be discussed is Mark Osborne's way to mix American values with different cultures perfectly.Nowadays,the global cross-cultural communication has become a problem that must be faced.Strategies and means which Mark Osborne commonly used in his cross-cultural animations are going to be summarized.The outstanding Strategies and means are going to be used into the cross-cultural communication of Chinese animations,which will promote the Chinese animation industry to join globalization as soon as possible.