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本科毕业论文外文翻译
外文题目:
JapaneseArtandtheAnimatedCartoon
出处:
TheQuarterlyofFilmRadioandTelevision
作者:
TaiheiImamura
原文:
JapaneseArtandtheAnimatedCartoon
TAIHEIIMAMURAisoneofJapan'
sleadingmotionpicturecriticsandhaswrittenanumberofbooksonthesocialandaestheticaspectsofthefilm,aswellaseditingEigaBunka(MovieCulture),theonlymotion-picturemagazineinJapan.Thefollowingarticle,whichwastranslatedfromJapanesebyFuyuichiTsuruoka,istoappearasachapterinMr.Imamura'
sOntheAnimatedCartoon.THEANIMATEDCARTOONhasmadelittleprogressexceptinAmerica,butthepopularityofDisneyfilms,rivaledinuniversalappealonlybythefilmsofChaplin,givesreasontohopethattherewillbeaworld-widedevelopmentinthefieldofanimation,eachcountryadaptingthetechniquesofanimationtoitsownartistictradition.
Unfortunately,theJapaneseanimatedcartoonisnotasuniqueanartasthatofAmericadespitethefactthatJapaneseartinthepastwasdistinguishedbyitsoriginality.ItmaywellbethatancientJapaneseart,consideredcritically,istheartofalessadvancedsociety,butthisdoesnotmeanthataJapanesestyleofanimationcanorshoulddispensewithit.Whetherwelikeitornot,traditionalartmustbethefoundationofatrulyJapaneseanimatedcartoon.Originalityinthenewformwillnotbeattainedbyignoringthepast,fortheanimatedcartoon,likeothermodernformsofart,isadevelopmentofinheritancesfromthepast.IthasbeenpointedoutbyS.M.EisensteinthatancientJapanesearthascharacteristicscloselyrelatedtothoseoftheanimatedcartoonandemployssimilarmethods.
TheJapanesepicturescroll,consideredasapicturestory,isactuallyadistantantecedentoftheanimatedcartoon,thefirstattempttotellastorywithatimeelementinpictures.Thechiefdifferencebetweentheanimatedcartoonandthepicturescrollisthattheindividualpicturesinthescrolldonotmove.Ontheotherhand,neitherdoesthesingleframeofamotionpicture.Theillusionofmovementresults,inbothforms,fromthediffer-encebetweeneachpictureandtheonethatfollows.Eachpicture(whetherinthepicturescrollorthemovie)isinanimate,astillofarrestedmotion.Whenthepicturesareseenintime,oneafteranother,theyseemtomove.Thatobjectsandpeopleappeartohavemotionissecondary;
theessentialmovementistheprogressofanidea.Arepresentationofmeremotionisnotartunlessitadvancesanidea,oristhevisualimageoforiginalandcreativethought.BoththemotionpictureandtheJapanesepicturescrollareplasticexpressionsofideas,andconsequently,thoughthepicturescrolliscenturiesold,havefundamentaltechniquesincommon.
Toillustrate,aJapanesepicturescrollshowstheoppositesidesofabattleshipsimultaneouslyalthoughtheshipisinapositionwhereonlyonesidecouldactuallybeseen.Bytheordinarylawsofperspective,wecannotseetheoppositesideofanobject,sothebattleshipisdrawntwistedly.Thisisanegationofamonisticvisualangleandofcommonsense.ItisthesamemethodasthatofFuturismorCubism.
Toletusseebothsidesofanobjectfromonepointofviewistorevealthesidewhichisordinarilyunseenorthatwedonotexpecttosee.Theonesideis"
real"
andtheotheris"
unreal,"
sothattheunrealsideshouldbeconsideredtoexistthroughtherealone,tobepredicatedupontherealsideasprobableorneces-sary.Itisanimaginativeunificationofbothsides,distortingperspectivetoexpressanidea.
Doubleexposureinthemotionpictureservesthesamepur-pose,allowingustoseebothsidesofonethingatthesametime,ortwoobjectsindifferentplacesatthesametime.
Boththemotionpictureandthepicturescrollhaveothertech-niquesthatovercomethephysicallimitationsofthehumaneye.Themotion-picturemontageisessentiallythesameastheun-synchronizedrevolvingmethodinthepicture-scrolldrawing,forexample,andthecutbackalsohasitscounterpartinthescroll.Inthepicturescrollandthemotionpicturewecanseethelivingconditionsofamaninthecityandhisloverinthecountrysynchronously,alternately,andinparallel.Obviously,whatweseeinthescrollexistsonlyinourminds;
butthesameistrueofthemotionpicture,eventhoughitshowsusrealobjectsandpeopleandplaces.Itisnotbecausetheyareoftenpartofanimaginedstory.AnewsreelmontageofLondon,Tokyo,andNewYorkshowsusrealcities,buttoseeNewYorkonemomentandTokyothenextisinconsistentwithreality,anddemandsthatweacceptanegationoftimeandspace.Inasense,then,doubleexposure,montage,andcutbackaretechniqueswhichtransformrealityintoidea.
Whatweactuallyseeinamotionpictureorapicturescrollisthevisualizationofani