TELE 3010 1st Edition Lecture 13Outline of Last Lecture I. RhetoricII. PoeticsIII. EroticsOutline of Current Lecture I. Importance of StoriesCurrent LectureWhy 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 andget 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
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