Dad dressed up bumblebee to pick up the end of school result daughter super calm! A Brief History of American Animation Culture

On November 1, in Weifang, Shandong, a father at the entrance of Shouguang Holy City Primary School made his daughter happy, dressed as his daughter's favorite image Bumblebee to pick up his daughter from school, attracting all the students to stop and watch enviously. Father Liu Jiangwen said that as long as it is what the daughter likes, the father tries to be satisfied, and the father should guard the daughter like a bumblebee and protect her forever.

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Dad dressed as a bumblebee to pick up the results of the school result daughter super calm on the hot search, worth this opportunity, for everyone to popularize a brief history of American animation culture.

Maybe you're familiar with the heroes of the Marvel Universe, or maybe you're amazed that this is a success story of the American cultural export strategy. However, do you understand the strong cultural genes behind the "Marvel Universe" and the social phenomena contained in the centennial development process of American comics, as well as the strong historical accumulation and refraction?

The First World War destroyed the Western tradition of civilization, and modern industrial civilization caused the alienation of human nature. In this context, the cultural and artistic circles that think about the way out of civilization have derived many modernist schools, which are indiscriminately coveted in the fields of fine arts and music, and expressionism that later spread to the field of film is one of them.

The expressionist film "Dr. Caligari's Cabin", which was filmed in 1920 and reflects the reality of capitalist society, is one of the masterpieces. The coping partner of Doctor Crime, Caesar, is played by Conrad Waiter, whose morbid face and evil expression are unforgettable, and it is this person who is the inspiration for the Joker in Batman.

In 1928, Conrad Waiter starred in the film of the same name adapted from Victor Hugo's classic realist masterpiece The Smiley Man, playing the "Smiley Man" Gwenpland. Because its expressionist gothic temperament is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, after the reinterpretation of three artists from Marvel's old rival DC, in 1940, "Joker" finally appeared.

As another giant of American animation that can compete with Marvel and DC, Disney Company, reflects the social phenomena of that time with the classic animation of various periods. Here's an example, CCTV began in the mid-to-late 1980s and introduced a series of disney's early classic animations. Among them is a classic animation that reflects early ecological protectionism, The Prince of the Forest.

The Prince of the Forest was filmed in 1967. The theme of peaceful coexistence between man and nature in the film reflects the social trend of the 1960s in the United States. At a time when countercultural movements were booming, hippies were a unique social phenomenon. Anti-Vietnam War, resistance to industrial civilization, return to nature is their demand. This led to the "Summer of Love" of 1967, and rock 'n' roll was one of their weapons. The most heavyweight rock idol of that year was the well-known Beatles, which was also a cultural phenomenon of XuanHe's moment.

In fact, the creator of the "Marvel Universe", the recently deceased American animation master Stan Lee, is very sensitive to the trend of the times. As a World War II veteran, he experienced the "big factory culture" of the United States in the 40s and 50s, and began to embrace popism in the 60s and 70s. Pop was a school of fine arts that used bright images of large color blocks, collages, and hand-printed plates to counter post-industrial civilization, and later spread to stage plays, films, and other fields.

Stan Lee's "Marvel Universe" has made great strides during the technological race between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Soviet Union sent the universe the first spaceman Gagarin. Marvel characters such as the Hulk, Black Widow, and Iron Man, who are well known to today's audiences, were all born in that era. Nowadays, the shadow of the Cold War has been disenchanted, and American comics represented by Marvel, DC, Disney, etc., have also deviated from their original intention of rebelling against capitalist industrial civilization.

The famous French thinker and Marxist theorist I Debo once asserted that "the developed capitalist society has entered a landscape society dominated by the production of image objects and the consumption of objects and images". Although "Avengers 4" played the final chapter of the "Marvel Universe", as a case of successful cultural export of the developed film industry in the United States, the rest of the work has far-reaching effects.

Because Downey Jr. confirmed the social impact of farewell Marvel movies, the phenomenon of refracting the "landscape society", citing the above several cases of the development history of animation, why the United States can achieve "image object production" that lasts for a century, the strong cultural genes behind this are really worth thinking about. (Zihua)