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The Japanese Tragic Aesthetic Study Of The Ghibli Cartoon "Different World"

Posted on:2020-12-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2435330602451189Subject:Theater, film and television
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Since its coming into being,cartoon,as a film type with unique artistic charm,has very remarkable characteristics.The virtual assumed space,cute and interesting modeling design,humorous and exaggerated expression techniques,extremely strong entertainment,endow the animation with a powerful function of education and entertainment,so as to make its audience concentrated in the young people.Studio Ghibli Inc is a well-known animation production company in Japan.It was established in 1985.So far,it has produced 23 animation feature films,which are especially famous for depicting the magnificent "different world".In stark contrast to the mainstream animation production companies today,Studio Ghibli Inc breaks through the shackles of the young-age audience,and permeates the strong traces of Japanese tragic aesthetics in character design,plot construction,humanistic theme and other aspects,making it stand in the forest of world animation with distinct artistic characteristics.Studio Ghibli Inc has been established for more than 30 years,and its works are still widely spread and continue to gain a large number of loyal fans across national boundaries and cultures.It can be seen that its cultural charm is strong and far-reaching,and its audience is mostly for adults,spreading the charm of animation art to a wider field.It is not only the representative and leading figure of Japanese animation,but also a banner of Japanese traditional tragedy aesthetics.Based on typical representative and the significance of ghibli,excellent output tragedy aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese 15 animation works to do specific research,analysis of Studio Ghibli Inc created the role of "another world" design,construction,cultural theme,plot,and on the basis of aesthetics and cultural philosophy interpretation of Japan's tragedy aesthetic aesthetic characteristics and connotations.As a whole,this paper is composed of six important parts:The introduction mainly expounds the background and significance of the topic,defines the research object of this paper,introduces the research methods,and sorts out the research status of Studio Ghibli Inc's animation at home and abroad.The first chapter mainly introduces the difficult exploration of Japanese animation,from the development of comics to animation,the contribution of Dongying animation company and Osamu Tezuka to Japanese animation,as well as the establishment and positioning of Studio Ghibli Inc.The tragic aesthetic style created by them successfully exported the traditional aesthetic characteristics of Japan and became the national pride.The second chapter mainly analyzes the design of typical tragic characters in"different world",which shows that one of the characteristics of Japanese tragedy aesthetics is that "beauty is short of regret",and analyzes the pessimistic understanding of the meaning of beauty behind this characteristic.The third chapter mainly analyzes the construction of ghibli's cruel plot of"different world",which presents the second characteristic of Japanese tragedy aesthetics:"the world is bitter",and analyzes the Japanese nation's bitter life view behind this characteristic.The main content of the fourth chapter is a specific analysis of the tragic theme of the "different world",which shows that the third characteristic of Japanese tragedy aesthetics is "full of contradictions",analyzes the death concept of Japanese national contradiction behind this characteristic,and inquires into the psychological root of Japan's beauty of sorrow and pride in death.These three levels are progressive,from the point to the surface,a complete output of the Japanese traditional tragic aesthetic style,so that his works with distinct Japanese characteristics.Finally,the thesis is summarized.The animation feature films produced by Studio Ghibli Inc have not lost their charm for decades.They have not only raised the artistic quality of animation to a high point,but also created considerable commercial profits and successfully exported the national culture,hoping to inspire the creation of animation in China by inheriting the excellent traditional culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:"different world", tragedy, Japanese aesthetics
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