My PhD proposal is addressing the emotional expressiveness in Disney films ( the animated films versus their remake counterparts) and how the animated characters show more emotions than the realistic (remake) characters. However, I still could not choose which approach/methodology I should go with.
any advice for such a research?
Through the grapevine, I have heard that Japanese anime and similar pictorial art forms being developed in Japan are worthy of scientific study because of their artistic and technological achievements in depicting facial expressions. If you are interested in including a comparative analysis element in your study, then this East Asian approach to emotional expressiveness may be worth researching. It might be interesting to compare and also to contrast facial expressiveness in Disney and some Japanese animated film forms, from both film studies visual arts and psychology of perception cinematic standpoints.
Best wishes,
Nancy Ann Watanabe
Nancy Ann Watanabe that's really an interesting idea but would not my research shifts to a comparison between Japan animation and western animation rather than Disney animated films vs their remakes.
For a PhD proposal in film studies, you can consider various methodologies depending on your research questions and objectives. Some methodologies commonly used in film studies research include:
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