Animated movie

Area of Interest:
Analysing the theme of alienation in Animated films. I will be looking at films from Japan and films from the USA.

Question: How is alienation is used in animated films in the USA and Japan developing the protagonists acceptance into society?

Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away. Japan
Katsuhiro Otomo, Steam Boy. Japan

Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Beauty and the Beast. USA
Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, Mulan. USA

Areas of Focus:
Visual Imagery (colors, etc), cinematography (ex. wide empty shots showing isolation), and Mis en Scene

In Spirited Away a girl named Chichiro loses her parents and tries to get them back forcing her to take refuge in a bath house for the spirits. Steam Boy focuses on a boy whose father goes off to work in another country and leaves the boy by himself with his mother. Mulan is based on a girl named Mulan who is alienated because she is a girl wanting to join the military where men are only allowed, but she goes against the social norms and eventually becomes accepted by society. The Beauty and the Beast is a movie based upon a man cursed having beastly qualities superficially representing his inner personality, this isolates him from the world until he meets a special someone.