TELE 3010 1nd Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture I Importance of Stories Outline of Current Lecture I Narrative Structure a Structural Position of Characters Current Lecture Narrative Structure ELC Reading Traditional Narrative Art There is stasis stability and then disruption something that breaks up the stability and then the resolution the process of coming back to this stability stasis This is a common structure of narrative art Examples Romance Western Crime stories Structural Position of Characters Who takes action Whose point of view What roles do they have functions within the plot Which discourses dominate Who is superior which character is superior over the others 1 Action Stasis Disruption Resolution Hero Flawed Character that has some sort of problem Then there is a test of character in which they grow and then become a better character Character versus Social Forces Like crime and people of color cop shows vs The Wire By casting african americans or latino americans in the roles of crime people begin to see these races in this sense in society The Wire is an example because what is seen is not a typical picture of a network drama there are 70 african americans cast and its a good picture of the complexity of life and social forces 2 Point of View The authors are interested in who are you asked to identify with Narration close ups emotional involvement all of these are ways we are asked to participate within stories or movies etc and we are encouraged to take the POV of certain characters versus Long shots slower editing no main characters no simple answers Example Elephant usually not who we are asked to participate with 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 3 Roles How characters are positioned affects how we understand them Who are positions of power doctors and lawyers positions of weakness cops Questions of race class gender sexuality Are women in positions of power Are criminals in positions of weakness What races are in positions of power or in positions of weakness 4 Dominant Discourse Every text has competing discourses or arguments that can be taken as truth How are competing truths discredited The text will do it by revealing perverts or criminals the descent into evilness The show Lost you couldn t tell who to believe 5 Superiority Gender Identification w the male and objectification of the female What does this mean Example of hercules and him as the hero and the women as damsels in distress with no personality or any significance in the story more that they are an object of desire Look through a male perspective Women are the object of the look or gaze of both male characters and the audience 6 Women Mise en scene women and their lighting soft focus framing music erotic costuming Their actions are erotic like dancing and singing and reactive Emotions focus on the women s feelings setting private domestic sphere 7 Ideological Meanings Legally Blonde Example page 280 281 Wider ideological questions about femininity and female success in male dominated arenas of life she became successful as a lawyer although she was perceived as an airhead and typical dumb blonde how women should act and appear
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