The Use of the Past to Shape the Present: Shifting Depictions of the Ancient World in Twentieth-Century American Cinema

Jay, Jacqueline E.

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“…Nowadays, the dissemination of literary images on screen has become a major trend. From text to image text, it is undoubtedly a conversion process completed with the help of a series of conversions and extensions of artistic codes that reinforce and defy the development of such past imagery in the particular times that it was created (Chengcheng 2019 ; Jay 2019 ). Although there are differences between the media and the artistic expression methods formed by these differences, the fundamental narrative structure, spiritual connotation, and character images present in cinematic broadcasting, albeit different, has not changed dramatically.…”

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Calling for a Hero: The Displacement of the Nezha Archetypal Image from Chinese Animated Film Nezha Naohai (1979) to New Gods: Nezha Reborn (2021)

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Lopez-Mugica

2021

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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From the classical Chinese literary masterpiece Investiture of the Gods to contemporary film animation, Nezha’s image is profound. Examining the portrayals of Nezha, namely in those most celebrated animated films, we argue that his role as the epitome of a ‘god like figure’ is in constant displacement and return. Using the framework of archetype and displacement as advanced by Northrop Frye, with a more pluralistic myth analysis extension found in the myth critique of Gilbert Durand, this article examines the multi-layered mythical mini structures within Nezha’s displacement and return in Chinese animation, to explore the themes, images, and archetype represented by the character from the perspective of Chinese history and culture. We argue that Nezha’s displacement and return in Chinese animation expresses the need and call for a traditional heroic image in a particular era. As such, Nezha’s intertextuality exposes the profound inner patterns that form and refashion the Chinese collective unconscious, performing as a recurring mirror that symbolically inform and transform human experiences in China.

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confidence: 99%