Celebration of Fragmentation and Chaos: Postmodern Tendencies of Bu Hua’s Animated Shorts

Yuanyuan Chen

Celebration of Fragmentation and Chaos: Postmodern Tendencies of Bu Hua’s Animated Shorts

Yuanyuan Chen

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Abstract

Chinese experimental animator Bu Hua has won an enviable reputation for her distinctive Flash-animated shorts since 2002. Her animated works playfully mix symbols, icons, and pop art, completely discard the grant narrative and linear storytelling, and fully embrace the dislocation of time and space, all reflecting a strong postmodernist aesthetics. This paper investigates the postmodernist expressions in Bu’s animations from two perspectives. First, the fragmented narrative and chaotic temporal and spatial correlations of Bu animations establish a heterotopia-like world. Second, it will discuss how these reproduced icons and symbols are superficially jammed in Bu’s moving images.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 15 May 2015
Event	"Beyond The Frame": the 27th Society for Animation Studies annual conference - Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom Duration: 13 May 2015 → 16 May 2015

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Conference	"Beyond The Frame"
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Canterbury
Period	13/05/15 → 16/05/15

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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Chinese animation
postmodernism
Bu Hua

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