Storytelling on Screen

Gebonden EN 2014 9781405173780
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"Storytelling on Screen" provides an historical accounting of narrative across time, genre, and media - from the age of ancient myth to the moment of multimedia spectacle. This wildly capacious and deft synthesis of narrative theory details key concepts, the roots of symbolic narrative, the protagonists who inhabit the narrative landscape (e.g., hero, antihero, the fool), and the many manifestations of narrative in film and popular culture - from "Spartacus" and "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest" to the experimental worlds of video games and dramatic television series that pivot on their narrative strength (.eg., NYPD Blue, ER). "Storytelling on Screen" will summarize the key shifts in the evolution of selected narrative traditions, show their 'entry points' into the realm of cinema, and comment on their presence in contemporary popular culture. Since the biggest stories in our age 'of the spectacle' are shown rather than told, the book pays close attention to performance, Aristotelian poetics, and dramatization of the narrative, while exploring dramatic forms, including tragedy and comedy, in connection to storytelling on screen.
Each chapter in "Storytelling on Screen" will begin by introducing a relevant cultural theory and exploring a narrative tradition using multiple references to literature, film, and popular culture. Each chapter will conclude with a summarizing case study (five pages) of two films, further clarifying new notions and ideas though textual analysis. The book will also have a Glossary; Side-bars; Bibliography/Filmography; 20 b/w images.

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ISBN13:9781405173780
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:320
Uitgever:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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.Storytelling on Screen:.Traditions in Narrative and the Age of Visual Culture..Table of Content.Part I. Key Concepts: Storytelling, Genre, Drama. * The Roots of Symbolic Narrative: Storytelling, Experience, and Community . * The Tree of Genres: Narrative Formulas and Cultural Functions . * From Story to Spectacle: The Art of Dramatic Storytelling .Part II. Pivotal Protagonists and Symbolic Narratives. * Tragedy vs. Thriller. Narrating the Events of Death from Aristotle to Hitchcock . * The Hero's Journey: Sons of Prometheus and the Paradigm of Death-Rebirth . * The Fool's Joke: Carnivals, Reversible Worlds, and Paradoxes of Topsy-Turvy . * Stories of Extraordinary Ordinary People or the Expressiveness of Realism: .The Naked Man, The Little Man, The Everyman, and The Mass-Man. * Tales of Rebellion: Noble Thieves and Outcasts as Heroes and Villains: .Loss of Freedom and Jail House Tales from Spartacus to the Cuckoo's Nest. * The Tradition of The Antihero: The Dangerous Protagonist and His Path to Power ...Part III: Experimental Fiction and Possible Worlds. * Narrative Chronotopes: Journeys in the Time and Space of Fictional Worlds . * Modernist Paradigms: New Narrative and the Birth of Experimental Storytelling . * Postmodern Paradigms: Antinarrative and the Death of Story . * America's Favorites: Murder Mystery, Film Noir, and Narratives of Suspense. .The Tradition of Narrative Maze from Ritual Riddle to Popular Culture. * Transcendental Narrative: Reaching to the Beyond by Telling a Story . * Cops, Doctors, Friends, and Dysfunctional Families. Making Home Improvement in the Full House: Storytelling on TV and the Symbolic Construction of Community. . * Homer on the Hollodeck: The Future of Storytelling and the Poetics of Tomorrow - Is It Interactive? Hyperreal? Multinarrative? Polyphonic? Transcultural? ...

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