| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 語文教育學系碩博士班 === 103 === Pixar Animation Studios plays an influential role in American animation business due to two of its features, “technology advantages “and “originality”. The Pixar stories, as famous and worldwide animations, include cultural message. Additionally, the stories depict the similar life experiences that the readers share together, which makes animation more than a peaceful and happy story. What’s more, it contains reality and even the cruel issue of our lives. Through this research, we can see how the leading characters interact with each other and suffer from the trials of life. Therefore, we find every individual difference among us is significant to other people, and it shows the background of racial harmony in American culture.
There are five chapters in the research. The first chapter is introduction; to organize and analyze those Pixar Animation stories in the history, it illustrates the motive, purpose, the selected texts, method of the research and the meaning of the subjects. This chapter analyzes former researches separately digging in four aspects - characteristics in film production, marketing communication, visual design, and content narration in Pixar Animation. Among the above, researches about content narration is less than the other three aspects. Therefore, in order to see how the power of the characters change, content narration is used to analyze the text in this research as the process of how the subject is constructed by differing the main characters and other characters in Pixar Animation.
The second chapter,“The Construction of Subjects with Different Genders– take Brave for instance”, discusses about how leading actress affects the peace of the clan in Brave.The queen in Brave assigned Merida to a marriage which stands for patriarchy. However, Merida fought for freedom and love through words and actions. After reconciling with her mother, Merida started to take the responsibility of keeping the peace among the clans. She successfully changed the patriarchal marriage system by solving the conflicts among the clans with love.
The f third chapter, “The Construction of Subjects in Different Classes – takes A Bug’s Life for instance”, depicts the way the leading character, Flik, changed the colonial relationship between the ants’ kingdom and the grasshoppers’ group. Flik used his wisdom and invention to draw outer resources into the kingdom. He saved the ant queen successfully, which got him out of the lowest status in the kingdom. The subject shows a distinguishing individual value among all the ants.
The fourth chapter, ““The Construction of Subjects in Different Groups – take The Incredibles for example”, depicts how the leading character, Mr. Incredible, differs from traditional super heroes. He held the responsibility of taking care of his own family. Under the stress from the society, Mr. Incredible struggled between two roles at the same time – a super hero and an ordinary man. By way of using his super power to rescue the people with his family, Mr. Incredible finally regained his reputation.
The fifth chapter is conclusion. It concludes the distinguishing way of narrating how the construction of subjects processes in Pixar Animation, and it finds out that the texts depict various issues and put emphasis on how individuals affect our society. Last, this research also provides the potential aspects of future researches.
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