Viewing Humans and Nonhumans in Fairy-Tale Animation: The Case of Michel Ocelot's Kirikou Films

4区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI:10.1353/mat.2023.a900261

L. C. Seifert

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Abstract

Abstract:French animator Michel Ocelot has garnered much praise for his fairy-tale films, which resist commercial norms and often question gender and racial stereotypes. But his Kirikou film series has nonetheless been criticized for recycling stereotypes of traditional African life. This article reframes these criticisms by focusing on the depiction of human-nonhuman relations. Ocelot's Kirikou films present a striking contrast between minimalist human figures and detailed backgrounds that focuses attention on how humans interact with the nonhuman. This aspect of the Kirikou films reminds us the fairy tale has much to reveal about how we conceive the world we inhabit.

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在童话动画中观看人类和非人类:米歇尔·Ocelot的Kirikou电影的案例

摘要:法国动画大师米歇尔·奥斯洛特的童话电影抵制商业规范，经常质疑性别和种族的刻板印象，他的童话电影获得了很多好评。然而，他的Kirikou系列电影却因重复了对非洲传统生活的刻板印象而受到批评。本文通过关注人类与非人类关系的描述，重新构建了这些批评。Ocelot的Kirikou电影在极简主义的人物形象和细节化的背景之间呈现出鲜明的对比，将注意力集中在人类与非人类的互动上。Kirikou电影的这一方面提醒我们，童话故事对我们如何想象我们所居住的世界有很多启示。

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期刊介绍： Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.