This article investigates single-panel cartoons portraying official corruption in China’s longest- running state-owned cartoon newspaper Cartoon Weekly (Fengci yu youmo). A total of 433 cartoons are ...identified as relating to corrupt officialdom between 2012 and 2019 in the wake of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption signature policy. In contrast with the individualizing critique of political cartooning in liberal democracies, the corpus of corruption cartoons investigated in this article is argued as a didactic form of visual schematization in a pseudo-self-critical discourse typically buttressed by verbal reading instructions. To support this claim, the article addresses its politics of visual discourse by employing Peircean hypoiconicity, consisting of direct resemblance, diagrammatic schematization and metaphoric displacement. Accordingly, the article identifies three major features of corruption cartoons as anonymization of direct resemblance, visual schematization of policy and metaphoric displacement of conventional symbols.
Cartoon Image Processing: A Survey Zhao, Yang; Ren, Diya; Chen, Yuan ...
International journal of computer vision,
11/2022, Volume:
130, Issue:
11
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
With the rapid development of cartoon industry, various studies on two-dimensional (2D) cartoon have been proposed for different application scenarios, such as quality assessment, style transfer, ...colorization, detection, compression, generation and editing. However, there is still a lack of literature to summarize and introduce these 2D cartoon image processing (CIP) works comprehensively. The cartoon images are usually composed of clear lines, smooth color patches and flat backgrounds, which are quite different from natural images. Therefore, based on the characteristics of cartoons, many specific CIP strategies are proposed. Especially with the development of deep learning technology, recent CIP methods have achieved better results than direct application of natural image processing algorithms. Thus, this paper reviews the commonalities and differences of 2D CIP methods according to different scenarios and applications, and focuses on recent deep-learning-based algorithms specifically. In addition, this paper also collects related CIP datasets, conducts experiments for some typical tasks, and discusses the future work.
China's role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her study of Chinese animation and its ...engagement with international forces during its formative period, the 1940s-1970s. She introduces readers to transnational movements in early Chinese animation, tracing the involvement of Japanese, Soviet, American, Taiwanese, and China's ethnic minorities, at socio-historical or representational levels, in animated filmmaking in China. Du argues that Chinese animation was international almost from its inception and that such border-crossing exchanges helped make it "Chinese" and subsequently transform the history of world animation. She highlights animated encounters and entanglements to provide an alternative to current studies of the subject characterized by a preoccupation with essentialist ideas of "Chineseness" and further questions the long-held belief that the forty-year-period in question was a time of cultural isolationism for China due to constant wars and revolutions.
China's socialist era, known for the pervasiveness of its political propaganda and suppression of the arts, unexpectedly witnessed a golden age of animation. Socialist collectivism, reinforced by totalitarian politics and centralized state control, allowed Chinese animation to prosper and flourish artistically. In addition, the double marginality of animation-a minor art form for children-coupled with its disarming qualities and intrinsic malleability and mobility, granted animators and producers the double power to play with politics and transgress ideological and geographical borders while surviving censorship, both at home and abroad.
A captivating and enlightening history, Animated Encounters will attract scholars and students of world film and animation studies, children's culture, and modern Chinese history.
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