Abstract
Cinema is used as a tool for culture and alienating expansionism. The West's concern for influence over the East is shaped by Orientalism. The West is the guardian, supervisor and when necessary, obsessive love of the East. He acts as a guard to ensure that he does not go beyond the boundaries he has drawn. He commands her by setting rules for her own self and despite all his wildness, she is his lover whom he cannot give up because he cannot leave her alone.In the context of the relationship between cinema and orientalism, the study aims to reveal how animation, whose majority audience is children, has been transformed into a tool of discourse, especially under the influence of orientalism. In the study, firstly, orientalism and orientalist discourses are defined and then their relationship with cinema is tried to be elucidated. In this way, by revealing orientalist discourses, an attempt is made to determine the points to be looked at in cinema and especially in animation. The animated film series “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise and “Atlantis: Milo's Way” directed by Victor Cook, Toby Shelton and Tad Stones are analyzed based on semiotics. The analysis reveals orientalist discourses within the film series.