Exploring The Presentation Of Folklore In Animated Short Films

Animated short films have always been an important channel for cross-cultural communication due to their short duration and easy-to-read format.Once the art films of the Chinese school were famous overseas,and in recent years the animated short films produced by foreign video platforms have gained reputation in the Internet,the cultural communication potential of animated short films in the digital Internet era is huge.In the new era,Chinese animated shorts explore the road of their own national style,which must borrow the profound heritage of folk culture.This paper mainly takes the domestic animated short film and the personal animated short film "the Villager" as the object of analysis,and explores the presentation of folklore elements in the animated short film from the perspective of the interdiscipline of folklore and animation.The first chapter is divided into five chapters,the introductory part,which mainly explains the research background of this topic,the significance and purpose of the research,the summary of the current situation of the research in related fields,and briefly introduces the graduation work and the innovation point of this research.Chapter 2 analyzes the presentation of folklore and its processing strategies in the animated short film from the perspective of folklore,according to the main categories of folklore under the theory of folklore,which are mainly divided into four categories: material folklore,social organization folklore,spiritual folklore and linguistic folklore,and analyzes the presentation of the above folklore categories in individual works;Chapter 3 analyzes the presentation of folklore cultural themes in the animated short film,which aims at ethics and morality when adapting existing texts.Chapter 4 analyzes the characteristics of folklore presentation in animated short films,which are mainly imitative and thematic.Chapter 5 analyzes the function of animation short films and folklore,the use of folklore in animation short films can enhance the aesthetic effect of authenticity,and the edification function of folklore and the function of constructing national identity can be given greater play by the information-carrying advantage and dissemination advantage of animation short films.