An Interpretation of Defamiliarization and Anti-hero in “The Shape of Water”

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10.2991/assehr.k.210813.049How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“The Shape of Water”, Defamiliarization, Anti-hero

Abstract

“The Shape of Water” is an adult fairy tale with the theme of love. The film defamiliarizes the characters and the narrative plot of the hero and heroine, which widens the aesthetic distance between the film and the audience and makes the plain love story present a strange sensory experience. The depiction of anti-hero not only enriches the theme, but also shortens the sensory distance with the audience, which makes the audience feel the same and quickly integrate into the film to produce empathy. It is the skillful use of “defamiliarization” and “anti- hero” that depicts a great love story which is unusual, ethereal, aesthetic and magical.

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© 2021, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yingchun Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/17
TI  - An Interpretation of Defamiliarization and Anti-hero in “The Shape of Water”
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 274
EP  - 278
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210813.049
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210813.049
ID  - Zhang2021
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