TELE 3010 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I Rhetoric II Poetics III Erotics Outline of Current Lecture I Importance of Stories Current Lecture Why Stories ELC reading Notes Stories are important Stories are central to the human experience Fiction versus non fiction in relation to reality The parody new shows are not real and yet they are just as significant as the news because they offer us something valuable Why do humans need stories Catharsis It s the act of taking something within you and purging it from you When you re sad you cry a cathartic release Identification we see people in movies and books that we want to be like We identify with these people Empathy If we want to prevent cruelty in life we need to see how people live in war or poverty Based on empathy we have to put ourselves in their shoes through fiction Emotional release comedy We need to laugh The Onion satire paper and it s comment on 9 11 for example We need to have these stories as a mean of emotional release and laughter in order to pick ourselves up when down Engage with social taboos satire Satire is the way people can go against those who have power and get away with it Patriotism is a great example Challenge power Karl Marx The belief that stories can be a way to challenge power again satire is a form of this as well Art is an example of this too These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Types of Stories Myth Dystopia Utopia Utopia is the perfect society why Dystopia is the falling apart of a society usually at the hands of someone with power George Orwell s 1984 for example Realism A style and is present in non fiction and documentary obviously However it is a part of fictional tales as well As a reader we want to feel that the story is something that can happen to us and seems pliable for us as well Romantic Comedy for example Fantasy We aren t allowed to go to certain things so we fantasize over it Fifty Shades of Grey Once Upon a Time Psychoanalysis Based on Sigmund Freud 2 aspects of this is the psychological pleasures of viewing and the method for interpreting stories Oedipus Freud believed boys had desires for their mothers A guy marry s his mom and kills his dad
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