Assignment #7.pptx final
- 2. What is Narrative? A narrative is a story that is created in a constructive format (as a work of speech, writing, song, film, television, video games, photography or theatre) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events. Information from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative
- 3. Different types of Narratives.
- 4. Examples of Narrative films. Non- linear Narrative Films: The Social Network (2010) Director: David Fincher 500 Days of Summer. (2009) Director: Marc Webb
- 5. Tvzetan Todorov General Information. Tvzetan Todorov was born on the 1st of March 1939 in Sofia. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory. Theory TZVETAN TODOROV (Bulgarian structuralist linguist publishing influential work on narrative from the 1960s onwards) Todorov suggested that stories begin with an equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is disrupted by some event, setting in chain a series of events. Problems are solved so that order can be restored to the world of the fiction. http://pt.scribd.com/doc/8332523/Narrat ive-theory-notes
- 6. Claude Levi-Strauss General Information. Claude Lévi-Strauss born in 28th of November 1908, died 30th of October 2009. Was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology“. Theory. Levi-Strauss looked at narrative structure in terms of binary oppositions. Binary oppositions are sets of opposite values which reveal the structure of media texts. An example would be GOOD and EVIL - we understand the concept of GOOD as being the opposite of EVIL. Levi -Strauss was not so interested in looking at the order in which events were arranged in the plot. He looked instead for deeper arrangements of themes. For example, if we look at Science Fiction films we can identify a series of binary oppositions which are created by the narrative: Earth, Space, Good, Evil, Humans, Aliens, Past, Present, Normal, Strange, Known and Unknown. http://pt.scribd.com/doc/8332523/Narrat ive-theory-notes
- 7. http://pt.scribd.com/doc/8332523/Narrat ive-theory-notes Vladimir Propp General Information. Vladimir Propp born on the 17th of April 1895 died on the 22th of August 1970. Was a Russian and Soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements. Theory. (A Russian critic who examined 100s of examples of folk tales to see if they shared. any structures. His book on this 'Morphology of the Folk Tale' was first published in 1928) Propp looked at 100s of folk tales and identified 8 character roles and 31 narrative functions. The 8 character roles are 1. The villain(s) 2. The hero 3. The donor - who provides an object with some magic property. 4. The helper who aids the hero. 5. The princess (the sought for person) - reward for the hero and object of the villain's schemes. 6. Her father - who rewards the hero. 7. The dispatcher - who sends the hero on his way. 8. The false hero The character roles and the functions identified by Propp can be applied to all kinds of narrative. In TV news programmes we are often presented with 'heroes' and ‘villains'. Just think of the media portrayal of Saddam Hussein or Princess Diana.