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Storytelling on Screen

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7377-3
Verlag: Wiley
Erscheinungstermin: 11.10.2010
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Storytelling on Screen:.

Traditions in Narrative and the Age of Visual Culture.

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Table of Content.

Part I. Key Concepts: Storytelling, Genre, Drama.

* The Roots of Symbolic Narrative: Storytelling, Experience, and Community
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* The Tree of Genres: Narrative Formulas and Cultural Functions
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* From Story to Spectacle: The Art of Dramatic Storytelling
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Part II. Pivotal Protagonists and Symbolic Narratives.

* Tragedy vs. Thriller. Narrating the Events of Death from Aristotle to Hitchcock
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* The Hero's Journey: Sons of Prometheus and the Paradigm of Death-Rebirth
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* The Fool's Joke: Carnivals, Reversible Worlds, and Paradoxes of Topsy-Turvy
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* Stories of Extraordinary Ordinary People or the Expressiveness of Realism:
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The Naked Man, The Little Man, The Everyman, and The Mass-Man.

* Tales of Rebellion: Noble Thieves and Outcasts as Heroes and Villains:
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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
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Part III: Experimental Fiction and Possible Worlds.

* Narrative Chronotopes: Journeys in the Time and Space of Fictional Worlds
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* Modernist Paradigms: New Narrative and the Birth of Experimental Storytelling
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* Postmodern Paradigms: Antinarrative and the Death of Story
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* America's Favorites: Murder Mystery, Film Noir, and Narratives of Suspense.
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The Tradition of Narrative Maze from Ritual Riddle to Popular Culture.

* Transcendental Narrative: Reaching to the Beyond by Telling a Story
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* Cops, Doctors, Friends, and Dysfunctional Families. Making Home Improvement in the Full House: Storytelling on TV and the Symbolic Construction of Community.
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* Homer on the Hollodeck: The Future of Storytelling and the Poetics of Tomorrow - Is It Interactive? Hyperreal? Multinarrative? Polyphonic? Transcultural?
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