Assignment task: Could you help me improve my proposal depending on my abstract?
- Outline the topic are you analyzing.
- Outline and explain the main theme(s) you intend on investigating.
- Why this topic specifically? What interests you about it? What makes it important?
- Identify and explain the research angle(s) and relevancy to course themes- highlight theoretical & methodological approaches for analysis.
- Include some of the findings you'll be adressing in your paper based on the readings & research you've completed so far.
Here is my original my abstract:
Abstract
For a long time, animated films from Japan were not considered traditional films, because they were drawn and created by hand without actors, and were considered a branch of cartoons. But since the end of the war in the 1950s, when the Japanese economy began to recover, artists from Japan began to give new and profound meaning to animated films, documenting and reflecting the life of the era, and people around the world began to understand their cultures and societies through the animation they produced. These animated films were purely fictional films that used flexible and specific subplots to express and communicate the themes of their stories, as this was a visual communication technique that went beyond reality and generally focused on expressing their unique culture. It can be said that Japanese animation films not only emphasize the presentation of the psychological world of the characters, but also focus on the emotional education of the audience. Against the backdrop of the wave of commercialization hitting the art of cinema, Japanese animated films have always maintained a multifaceted and balanced construction of character relationships, which are based on genre-based characterization. That is why it is gradually known as a "product" of visual anthropology. Recently, Japanese animated films have gradually become popular and become hot in Southeast Asia as a way to express their own culture. Rhetorical theory is also very much used in animated films, and it is not simply to persuade and admonish people, but is very good at using "Pathos" to convey ideas through the emotional tendency of expression and attention to the audience, which makes the viewers deeply empathize with them. In this article, I try to analyze two classic animated films from Japan, "Paprika" and "Grave of the Fireflies", which are both Japanese animated films, but their styles and contents are very different. Paprika is a science fiction film that best captures the intertwined elements of time and space and screen division narrative, while Grave of the Fireflies is rated as the greatest animated war film ever made, yet it is an intergenerational Japanese film. I would like to use the rhetorical theories of visual rhetoric in these two films to demonstrate how they convey ideas, and to analyze the history of the development of anime themes in Japan after the war.