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Culture transfer in animations constructed with monomyth: Moana and Spirited Away examples

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2018
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20th Century American researcher and author Joseph Campbell expressed a theory which could be summarized as: The most lasting element of oral and written literature is the Hero's Myth and the Heros always go through similiar stages. Theory which named as Heroes Journey or ''Monomyth'' by Joseph Campbell handled, cultural expressions of humanity by pschological, sociological, cosmological and spiritual angles. This theory attracted interest of animation sector which was starting to grow during the same periods and started to be used by them in their stories fictions. Today, Monomyth schema which frequently used in products intented for mass culture, depending on heroes cultural code and system of universal signs , is starting to functioning as an organ that touchs the reality. In this way, studios creating this productions have become arbiters in transference and guidance of cultural structure. In other respects, in the same structure different cultural codes are also being presented. In thesis, firstly culture's and human's structural relations was debated, then evolution of animation was touched upon and at that point perusal of the hero archetype via Monomyth had been carried out. In this way, with Art of animation's limitless creation potentiality and how it effects on humans psycho-constitutive and socio-constitutive processes have been examined and by that called attention to these topics.

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Ilgın Özmen

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Ilgın Özmen (Master Thesis). Culture transfer in animations constructed with monomyth: Moana and Spirited Away examples, 2018, İstanbul Arel University.

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