Traditional animation

Excited for the adventure to come she crawled down the tunnel that, to her surprise, opened right into her own living room. Now though it looked like her real living room, everything was brighter and had a more welcoming atmosphere. Coraline was lured by the smell of real home cooking when she discovered her mother in the kitchen. Pullman said, “When she discovers a sinister woman there, who looks a little like her mother but has eyes that are big black buttons, the matter-of-factness of the…

As several other high school students know, the five paragraph essay dictates most of the upper level English courses. We were told that identity should be obsolete in all of our academic writing, but in reality, it is extremely difficult to not have some form of our identities. As Bronwyn T. Williams states in the paper “Pay Attention… the importance of identity in academic writing”, identity is vital to any literary work. If it is not incorporated, the reader will immediately revert to their…

The predominant church alludes to traditional religious practice and faith (with its promise of salvation), while at the left a cypress—a traditional Mediterranean memento mori and the tree Van Gogh himself called “funereal”—introduces a note of death. The elegiac tenor of these motifs is, however, overpowered by the richness and animation of the celestial spectacle beyond—the image of an afterworld both vast and exciting…

between international networks and Kompas.com as an Indonesian online media According to my observation towards some news publications on online media, there is a new trend in storytelling structure. The structure is arguably a major challenge to traditional news storytelling styles, since the media now include audiences as a part of news producer by embedding their social media comments within the story. Today, public’s activities on social media have created a very open and democratic…

reexamination of gender transgression and its sexual corollary. This essay will argue how the performativity of binary genders implicitly entails the possibility of alternative sexualities under the heterosexual hegemony through the analysis of a Disney animation Mulan (1998), which is a story of a woman successfully disguising as a warrior within an army for a decade. Firstly, the act of performing opposite sex and gender identity reveals the unnatural relation between genders and sexed bodies.…

animated movies as either Pixarvolt or nonpixarvolt. Among the Pixarvolt films are Finding Nemo, Over the Hedge, and while not a movie, she briefly references Spongebob Squarepants. These movies are archetypes of the Pixarvolt genre. None of these animations have an emphasis on the family or on the power of individuality. Rather, all successes come only after a team effort has been made or their own selfish ambitions are put aside. In addition to Finding Nemo, Chicken Run utilizes the symbolism…

me but I don’t have a good enough grasp on who was who to do so accurately. I was very impressed by the creativity, and the motion added to the throwing of the handkerchiefs was an excellent creative choice. I believe it added some fun and some animation to the scene. It definitely caught my…

For decades Disney has been using gender inequity to portray the females and males as princes, princesses, and evil character roles influencing the youth of our world that watch animated movies. However they are not alone. The animated movie making industry has long been known for its gender bias following in the footsteps of long ago written fables, folktales, myths, and fairy tales generalizing stereotypical male and female images from the movie industry and our society in general. The…

1. La Llorona Hispanic Legend: La Llorona is an old myth many times told by Hispanic parents, to scare their children into obedience. The story is about a woman named Maria. Maria was the most beautiful woman in her village, knowing this she thought she was better than everyone else. This meant Maria refused to marry any man below her standards, until she met a wealthy, attractive Ranchero. The beginning of their marriage was great, until the Ranchero returned to his gallivanting ways and would…

A discolored creature of massive build towers over the diminutive, feeble humans, who are immobilized by fear of its menacing glare and mutated frame. Like small mice, the people scamper away from the monster’s presence in disgust of its hideous appearance and fear of its unpredictable behaviors. Now, the creature stands alone, grieving over the pain of its abandonment. Who’s the real monster – man or creature? Since the origins of horror stories, grotesque creatures, like those previously…