Abstract

    American movies have long been popular across the world. The American movie industry has successfully conquered the movie markets in a lot of countries with its blockbusters, special effects, soundtracks, etc. Moreover, during the past few decades, American animated movies have also achieved a great success, and made important contributions to the American movie industry.
    In a number of Chinese people’s minds, animation is something simple and childish, which does not match with the taste of adults. However, American animations have been popular and highly appraised not only among children and teenagers, but also among adults, even the middle-and-old-ages. Why can American animations draw the attention of people of all ages, while domestic ones are just for primary school students? In addition to the differences in investment, technology, and some other artistic creativity between Chinese and American animations, the biggest gap may exist in their thoughts and connotations.
    Chinese animation is comparatively simple and stiff, with plain music and common plot, which can not catch the audience’s eyes. In addition, it contains too much moral factors and makes the audience feel like a moral lesson. Therefore, domestic animation lacks such factors as amusement, entertainment, relaxation, etc. while American animation has reached a rather higher level of development. It contains well-connected plots, humorous dialogues, wonderful soundtracks, and most importantly, it is closer to common people’s life and emotions, and has a vivid soul to express its ideology. Although American animation is relaxing and lively, it expresses and transmits the American culture and opinions about some themes of today’s human society, such as love, friendship, adventure, nature, etc. All those humanistic sensitivities make the American animation unique and popular across the world.
    In this thesis, the author will classify the humanistic sensitivities of American animation into four categories, (a) individualistic heroism; (b) spirit of liberty; (c) cultural integration; (d) returning to nature, via her own analysis on a number of animation movies. After the analysis, the author will also make a comment about the influence and instruction of American animation to domestic animation.

Keywords: American culture; animated movies; humanistic sensitivities; cultural integration

摘要

美国电影以其大片，特效，音乐风靡全球，征服世界电影市场。不仅如此，在过去的几十年间，美国的动画电影也取得了很大的成功，为美国的电影产业做出了巨大贡献。
在一些中国人的观念里，动画片是给小孩子看的，然而美国动画却老少通吃，原因何在？除了投资，技术以及其他艺术创新的差别，最大的差距在于思想观念的不同。中国动画相对单调乏味，没有吸引力，而且包含太多道德说教，因此缺乏幽默性，娱乐性和放松性。美国动画则发展程度高，情节有趣，对话幽默，音乐精彩，最重要的是贴近普通人的生活，娓娓阐述所含的意识形态。 尽管轻松活泼，美国动画也表达和传播着美国文化以及对当今社会的主题，例如：爱，友谊，冒险，环境，等等。所有这些人文情怀使得美国电影在全球独树一帜。
在本篇论文中，作者将通过对一部分动画电影的分析，从四个部分阐述美国动画电影中的人文情怀：个人英雄主义，追求自由，文化融合，回归自然。通过分析，希望能得出美国动画电影对国内动画的借鉴意义。

关键词：美国文化；动画电影；人文情怀；文化交融