摘要

  美国是一个由多个种族的人群移居所组成的国家，本身没有太深厚的文化底蕴。然而就是这样一个名族在短短数十载中形成了自己独特的美国式文化。有人说美国没有自己的文化，他们的文化都是从其他国家那学来的。但又有人说他们这种包容性的文化就是他们特有的文化。这是一个值得研究的话题。我们学习语言的最根本就是要了解这种语言背后的文化，这样才能使我们的学习更加具有实用性。研究美国文化特性对于我国建没与繁荣我国文化具有一定的借鉴性。动画属于大众传媒且对未成年人的成长有着深刻的影响，因此动画中传达的文化信息就显得尤为重要。在一个国家的影响力扩张中，文化扩张是最温和却又最有效的手段，可以说，文化扩张真的能够达到“随风潜入夜，润物细无声”的境界,这种文化扩张彰显着一个国家背后的民族特质和人文特质。本文通过对美国动画电影的研究分析来看美国的文化特征，使得我们可以更容易的明白美国文化特征。

关键词：卡通电影; 风格; 文化; 特征

Abstract

    America is a multiracial country and itself has no profound culture. However, just such a country formed its own unique American culture in such decades. Some people say that the culture of American is not originated from America. Most of American culture comes from other countries. Some people say that learning from other countries is just the culture of America which is called inclusiveness. We should pay more attention to the culture. The most important thing of learning language is to understand the culture behind the language. In this way we can make our study more practical. Animation belongs to mass media which is very important to minors. So the information in animation is particularly important. As everyone knows that the most effective way of expansion is cultural expansion. This article is going to research and analyse the American cartoon film so that we can more easily understand the characteristics of American culture.

Key words: cartoon film; culture; style; characteristics

1 Introduction

From the early twentieth century of this century, the United States cartoon movies have gone through emergence, development to today's prosperity. Especially from the 1990s, a huge change happened in the American cartoon film. At the same time of The Lion King, the series of Shrek , series of Toy story, Finding Memo, Kung- Fu Panda, Robot Round-Up and Fly Around To Record cartoon films success in creating global box-office , they have already made the culture deeply entere into minds of people all around.