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The Research on the Transformations in "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and Attitudes Towards the Animation Industry in China
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Abstract
China experienced a period of rapid development on entertainment domain. While some animations became extremely famous in a short time but quickly disappeared at the market, others could keep on track with the alteration of society. In this paper, the researchers will focus on an animation called Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and alterations of the culture and society in China behind its changes. The authors discuss reasons leading to changes of the animation and estimate alterations happened on society through researching developments of Chinese animation industry during last 15 years and making comparisons in its characters, plots, and painting styles between different editions of the animation published in last 15 years. In this paper, people could find out some reasons about changes of this animations in last 15 years and changes of people’s attitudes toward animation industry on society.
Keywords
animation, animation industry, animated film
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-045-5
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-046-2
- Published Date
- 31 October 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/11/20231382
- Copyright
- 31 October 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited