Genre, Narrative and Representation Theories
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- Created on: 06-01-16 11:53
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- Thoeries
- Genre Theories
- Steve Neale
- 'Genre is repetition with an underlying pattern of variations'
- This describes the way in which audiences...
- Want to be surprised
- want to know what to expect
- Want to be surprised
- This describes the way in which audiences...
- 'Genre is repetition with an underlying pattern of variations'
- Christine Gledhill
- Media producers are always working in 'creative tension' with codes and conventions of genre - a positive trend for media.
- Jane Feuer's
- In her study 'genre study and television'
- Genres are not organic in their conception, they are synthetic: artificial creations by intellectuals
- In her study 'genre study and television'
- Steve Neale
- Narrative theories
- Todorov (1969)
- 1. EQUILIBRIUM = all as it should be
- 2. DISEQUILIBRIUM = a disruption of that order by event (possible enigma)
- 3. RECOGNISION = realisation that the order has occurred.
- 4. REPARATION= an attempt to repair the damage that has occured
- 5. NEW EQUILIBRIUM = A return or restoration of new order
- 4. REPARATION= an attempt to repair the damage that has occured
- 3. RECOGNISION = realisation that the order has occurred.
- 2. DISEQUILIBRIUM = a disruption of that order by event (possible enigma)
- 1. EQUILIBRIUM = all as it should be
- Roland Barthes (1967)
- Enigma Codes
- The narrative will establish enigmas or mysteries as it goes along - The narrative functions to establish and then solve these mysteries.
- The audience draw pleasure from decoding and solving these narrative enigma codes
- Enigma codes can be:
- Textual
- Visual
- Aural
- Enigma codes can be:
- The audience draw pleasure from decoding and solving these narrative enigma codes
- The narrative will establish enigmas or mysteries as it goes along - The narrative functions to establish and then solve these mysteries.
- Enigma Codes
- Propp (1928)
- 8 typical characters
- 1. THE HERO (or a victim/ seeker hero) = reacts to the donor, weds the princess
- 2. THE VILLAIN = struggles against the hero
- 3. THE DISPATCHER= the character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off
- 4. THE (magical) HELPER = helps the hero in their quest
- 5. THE PRINCESS (or prize) = Ends up with the hero
- 6. THE DONAR = prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object
- 7. THE FALSE HERO = takes credit for the horse actions and tries to marry the princess
- 6. THE DONAR = prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object
- 5. THE PRINCESS (or prize) = Ends up with the hero
- 4. THE (magical) HELPER = helps the hero in their quest
- 3. THE DISPATCHER= the character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off
- 2. THE VILLAIN = struggles against the hero
- 1. THE HERO (or a victim/ seeker hero) = reacts to the donor, weds the princess
- 8 typical characters
- Todorov (1969)
- Representation Theories
- David Gauntlett
- Media Studies 2.0 article
- Pick and Mix theory
- The audience pick up bits of th media text that is appropriate to them and their lives in media texts such as magazines, and ignore other areas.
- Pick and Mix theory
- Media Studies 2.0 article
- Laura Mulvey
- The Male Gaze theory
- Media through the males eyes - seeing women as objectified and in a sexual manner.
- The Male Gaze theory
- Judith Butler
- Gender Performance theory
- Gender is a performance-it is what you do at particular times rather than who you are
- Gender Performance theory
- Stuart Hall
- Audience Responses and Positioning
- PREFERED READING = The audience agree the producers view on the text
- NEGOTIATEDREADING = The reader partially believes the text and broadly takes a preferred reading but sometimes modifies it
- OPPOSITIONAL READING = The reader rejects the producers view on the text
- Audience Responses and Positioning
- David Gauntlett
- Genre Theories
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