| Animal films has attracted more and more attention in recent years, Although this typeof iflm can not be attributed to any kind of traditional iflm, it truly brings an anotherdifferent view to us about how to judging the worldl. Not only the storylines in anima filmscater to popular taste, and many animal iflms imply a deep-seated signiifcance ofhumanistic connotation and ecological aestheticsas. While animal iflms bring pleantaesthetic pleasure to the audience, it also inspires people to think about the relationshipbetween human and naturen. At the beginning, animal characters appear i children iflm,then recently appears animal documentaryrom, animal drama and so on. F the humansupporting to the absolute protagonist in the iflm, animals’ position changes a lot. But thischange in roles manifests that people are beginning to think about the relationship betweenanimals and humanth. From animals are loyal to human, e film’s theme gradually rises to adeeper thinking of life and nature. Nowadays, the film technology is highly developed, anddazzling shock high-tech iflms are Ml of iflm market, but just like a clear stream, animaliflms express the purest beauty of nature and life to us which hides behind in the hustle andbustle worldh. It is of great signiifcance to study the theory of such films, but tere are stilllimited attention be paid to them in theoretical field at present. This paper are studying theanimal films combined with the ecological aesthetics.The paper is divided into three parts,the first chapter is mainly include the development of the animal movies, analyze thepattern of animal movie, and divided animal film into several categories, and to summarizetheir characteirstics. The second chapter introduce the ecological aesthetics, contrast thedevelopment of ecological aesthetics rfom the west and east. Chapter III will combine iflmand ecological aesthetics, analyze animal movies rfom the audio-visual language andcultural connotation, analyze value of animal movies by the ecological aesthetics, andtrying to ifnd the unique Intirnsic aesthetic and perceive respect for the natural life. |