- "genre is a repetition with an underlying pattern of variations. This difference is absolutely essential to the economy of genre".
- Genre is defined by two things:
how much it is conformed to it's genre's individual conventions such as stereotypes.
how much a film subverts the genre's conventions and stereotypes.
- Plot= everything visibly and audibly present in the text; what the readers observes
- Story= all events of the narrative, both explicit and implicit- what readers understand.
- Narrative= Plot+Story- a chain of events in a cause and effect relationship in time and space- the manner in which the story is revealed- telling of stories.
- A chain of events with a beginning, middle and end that embodies a judgement about the nature of events. All media products have a narrative.
Todorov's Theory of Narrative...
- Tzvetan Todorov suggested that conventional narrative are structured in five stages:
- A state of equilibrium at the outset;
- A disruption of the equilibrium;
- A recognition that there has been a disruption
- An attempt to repair the disruption;
- A reinstatement of the equilibrium (new equilibrium)- equilibrium does not return to the original one.
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