I Am What I Am: Construction and Expression of Chinese “Romance” in Animated Movies
Authors
Peixi Zhu
College of Humanities, Weinan Normal University, Weinan, Shaanxi, China, 714000
Corresponding author. Email: 877600713@qq.com
Corresponding Author
Peixi Zhu
Available Online 14 July 2022.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.056How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- I Am What I Am; Text symbols; Narrative plot; Emotional spirit; Chinese roman
- Abstract
From NEZHA: Birth of the Demon Child to Monkey King: Hero is Back, from White Snake to the current hit I Am What I Am, all animated movies are talking about Chinese romance, which is full of Chinese traditional culture and national spirit, filled with Chinese mythological universe and ordinary world. Taking I Am What I Am as the object of study, this paper analyzes the customs and human feelings in traditional culture and personal energy in modern culture from its text symbols, narrative plot and emotional spirit, so as to explore the differences between I Am What I Am and previous animated movies about gods, demons and monsters, and then conclude its more grounded “ordinary and extraordinary” Chinese romance.
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Peixi Zhu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/07/14 TI - I Am What I Am: Construction and Expression of Chinese “Romance” in Animated Movies BT - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 276 EP - 280 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.056 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.056 ID - Zhu2022 ER -