This is the first book in English on Chinese animation and socialism that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A timely and useful reference ...book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.
Paradoxes of liberal democracy Sniderman, Paul M; Petersen, Michael Bang; Slothuus, Rune ...
2014., 20140824, 2014, 2014-08-24
eBook
In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaperJyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims that the claims of their religious ...faith take precedence over freedom of expression. Given the explosive reaction from Middle Eastern governments, Muslim clerics, and some Danish politicians, the stage was set for a backlash against Muslims in Denmark. But no such backlash occurred.
Paradoxes of Liberal Democracyshows how the majority of ordinary Danish citizens provided a solid wall of support for the rights of their country's growing Muslim minority, drawing a sharp distinction between Muslim immigrants and Islamic fundamentalists and supporting the civil rights of Muslim immigrants as fully as those of fellow Danes-for example, Christian fundamentalists. Building on randomized experiments conducted as part of large, nationally representative opinion surveys,Paradoxes of Liberal Democracyalso demonstrates how the moral covenant underpinning the welfare state simultaneously promotes equal treatment for some Muslim immigrants and opens the door to discrimination against others.
Revealing the strength of Denmark's commitment to democratic values,Paradoxes of Liberal Democracyunderlines the challenges of inclusion but offers hope to those seeking to reconcile the secular values of liberal democracy and the religious faith of Muslim immigrants in Europe.
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.
Visual arts constitute a significant portion of the Marines’ life, from training manuals to public appearances. Illustrations may inform, educate, or entertain the masses, be they civilians or ...military personnel. The Mud and the Mirth takes a deeper look at comic illustrations from the earliest publications for the Marine Corps-the Recruiters Bulletin, the Marines Magazine, and the Marines Bulletin-prior to World War I, as well as presents the entire collection of Stars and Stripes cartoons illustrated by Marine cartoonist Abian A. Wallgren.
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.
Multi-modality image fusion is an effective technique to fuse the complementary information from multi-modality images into an integrated image. The additional information can not only enhance ...visibility to human eyes, but also mutually complement the limitations of each image. To preserve the structure information and perform the detailed information of source images, a novel image fusion scheme based on image cartoon-texture decomposition and sparse representation is proposed. In proposed image fusion method, source multi-modality images are decomposed into cartoon and texture components. For cartoon components a proper spatial-based method is presented for morphological structure preservation. An energy based fusion rule is used to preserve structure information of each source image. For texture components, a sparse-representation based method is proposed. A dictionary with strong representation ability is trained for the proposed sparse-representation based fusion method. Finally, according to the texture enhancement fusion rule, the fused cartoon and texture components are integrated. The experimentation results have clearly shown that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-art methods, in terms of visual and quantitative evaluations.
The aim of this study is to examine the studies on cartoons and value education by systematic compilation method. In the study, 14 articles and 14 theses published between 2013-2022 were examined. ...Researches; publication year, publication type, purpose, method/pattern, sample level, sample size, watched cartoons, number of episodes, data collection tools, data analysis method, results and suggestions were examined in accordance with the themes. According to the reviews, it was concluded that the researches were concentrated in 2019 and that they were similar in terms of publication type, purpose, pattern, data collection tools and the cartoons examined. Results; showed that positive values were more dominant and negative values were less. According to the results obtained, suggestions were made to parents, teachers, researchers and publishers.
Bu çalışmanın amacı, çizgi film ve değer öğretimi üzerine yapılan çalışmaların sistematik derleme yöntemiyle incelenmesidir. Çalışmada 2013-2022 yılları arasında yayınlanmış 14 makale ve 14 tez incelenmiştir. Araştırmaların; yayın yılı, yayın türü, amaç, yöntem/desen, örneklem düzeyi, örneklem büyüklüğü, izlenen çizgi filmler, bölüm sayıları, veri toplama araçları, veri analiz yöntemi, sonuç ve öneri temalarına uygun olarak incelenmiştir. İncelemelere göre, araştırmaların 2019 yılında yoğunlaştığı, yayın türü, amaç, desen, veri toplama araçları ve incelenen çizgi filmler konusunda benzediği sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Bulgular; olumlu değerlerin ağırlıkta olduğunu, olumsuz değerlerin ise daha az olduğunu göstermiştir. Elde edilen sonuçlara göre velilere, öğretmenlere, araştırmacılara ve yayıncılara önerilerde bulunulmuştur
