文档介绍：本科毕业论文外文翻译
外文题目: Japanese Art and the Animated Cartoon
出处: The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television
作者: Taihei Imamura
原文:
Japanese Art and the Animated Cartoon
TAIHEI IMAMURA is one of Japan's leading motion picture critics and has written a number of books on the social and aesthetic aspects of the film, as well as editing Eiga Bunka (Movie Culture), the only motion-picture magazine in Japan. The following article, which was translated from Japanese by Fuyuichi Tsuruoka, is to appear as a chapter in Mr. Imamura's On the Animated Cartoon. THE ANIMATED CARTOON has made little progress except in America, but the popularity of Disney films, rivaled in universal appeal only by the films of Chaplin, gives reason to hope that there will be a world-wide development in the field of animation, each country adapting the techniques of animation to its own artistic tradition.
Unfortunately, the Japanese animated cartoon is not as unique an art as that of America despite the fact that Japanese art in the past was distinguished by its originality. It may well be that ancient Japanese art, considered critically, is the art of a less advanced society, but this does not mean that a Japanese style of animation can or should dispense with it. Whether we like it or not, traditional art must be the foundation of a truly Japanese animated cartoon. Originality in the new form will not be attained by ignoring the past, for the animated cartoon, like other modern forms of art, is a development of inheritances from the past. It has been pointed out by S. M. Eisenstein that ancient Japanese art has characteristics closely related to those of the animated cartoon and employs similar methods.
The Japanese picture scroll, considered as a picture story, is actually a distant antecedent of the animated cartoon, the first attempt to tell a story with a time element in pictures. The chief difference between the animated cartoon and the picture scroll is that the individual picture