Study on the Composition Design of Picture Book "Where the Wild Things Are" and the Aesthetic Imagery in Film Adaptation

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10.2991/icadce-18.2018.91How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Where the Wild Things Are; composition design; film adaptation

Abstract

Maurice Sendak's work "Where the Wild Things Are" was shocked the picture book world once published, and won numerous awards at the same time, which means that children's picture books came to maturity. In this work, the public from the traditional understanding of children's expectations to the children's psychological vision, opened up the cognitive and guidance of children's negative psychology, in 2009 his picture book was adapted into a film, the composition design of the picture book is in line with the process of lens movement in film, while the cognitive process of the picture blend with psychology. This article analyzes the children philosophy and cultural significance of his picture book and film adaptation from the perspectives of Sendak's creative style, aesthetic experience, composition design and its metaphor, as well as the aesthetic feelings of film adaptation.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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