Genre and Narrative Theory

GENRE
A great and rather humorous animated short film, which takes the audiences through the variety of genres one might experience in film. (By Don Hertzfeldt).


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_genre offers a definition of what genre could possibly mean, shown here:
A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other form of art or utterance. Genre is just the type of photography, like digital, film or black and white, or can be what you are taking a picture of, such as landscape, portraiture, horror/macabre, ect..Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_genre#ixzz1OuaDvmrF



The Master himself, Alfred Hitchcock, providing a few wise words on the difference between SPECIFIC genres of 'Suspense' and 'Mystery' - not a generic analysis/explanation of genre as a whole. Enjoy.


Below is a youtube video of myself, providing a presentation on genre theory:







NARRATIVE

MediaKnowAll provides a definition as to what the Narrative Key Concept could possibly mean."In media terms, narrative is the coherence/organisation given to a series of facts. The human mind needs narrative to make sense of things. We connect events and make interpretations based on those connections. In everything we seek a beginning, a middle and an end. We understand and construct meaning using our experience of reality and of previous texts. Each text becomes part of the previous and the next through its relationship with the audience."
  • Tvzetan Todorov - suggests narrative is simply equilibrium, disequilibrium, new equilibrium
  • Vladimir Propp - characters and actions (31 functions of character types)
  • Claude Levi-Strauss - constant creation of conflict/opposition propels narrative. Narrative can only end on a resolution of conflict. Opposition can be visual (light/darkness, movement/stillness) or conceptual (love/hate, control/panic), and to do with soundtrack. Binary oppositions.

narrative: a flow of events connected to a theme.   story: the conscious ordering of these events to elicit meaning.sourced from: http://www.gamechangers.com/index.html/archives/1775


A prezi presentation of Narrative:

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