Monday, 19 October 2015

Narrative theories

Tim O'Sullivan- (1998) argues that all media text tells us some kind of story.
  •    media texts offer a way of telling stories about our selves-not usually our own personal stories, but the stories of us as a culture or set of culture.
  • Narrative-the structure of a story.
  • diegesis
  • verisimilitude.
Pam Cook (1985) the standard Hollywood narrative structure should have:
  • linearity of causes and effect
  • high degree of narrative closure
  • a fictional world that contains verisimilitude especially governed by spatial and temporal coherence.

 Todorov-
  • Equilibrium
  • Disequilibrium
  • Recognition
  • Action
  • Restoration  
Kate domaille (2001) every story told ever.. falls into one of eight narrative types.
  • Achilles
  • Candide
  • Cinderella
  • Circe
  • Faust
  • Orpheus
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Tristan and iseult
Claude levi-struass (1958) he believed all stories operated under clear binary opposites e.g. good vs. evil. Black vs. White Rich vs. poor

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