Narrative

2010 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Tanya Jones
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Opening Scene ◽  
Dead Child ◽  
Tzvetan Todorov

This chapter focuses on narrative as the exploration of how a story is structured and organised in order to create meaning and generate a particular response from the audience. It explains how a film can be broken down into specific sections that contain particular events and have particular functions. It also discusses the narrative theory formulated by Tzvetan Todorov in his literary and cultural criticism, which defined three basic stages of a narrative's structure. The chapter describes Pan's Labyrinth's narrative structure that can be read as retrospective due to its opening scene of an image of a dead child. It explains that the retrospective narrative provides a retelling of what brings Ofelia to this tragic position.

scholarly journals NEGOSIASI HETERONORMATIVITAS PADA PERFORMATIVITAS TRANSGENDER DALAM FILM LOVELY MAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadya Afdholy
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Tzvetan Todorov

This study aims to reveal heteronormativity in the Lovely Man movie by director Teddy Soeriaatmadja by using narrative structure theory from Tzvetan Todorov and the concept initiated by Judith Butler. Heteronormative values that appear in the film directed by Teddy Soeriaatmadja are seen through dialogue between characters in each scene that are divided into three; (1) equilibrium/plenitude, (2) disruption, disequilibrium/disrupting force, and (3) opposing force. This research uses qualitative method by using approach of narrative analysis of model Tzvetan Todorov. The data used for this research is the film of Lovely Man by director Teddy Soeriaatmadja itself. This study uses data collection techniques with observation and literature study, as well as using data collection techniques with data reduction, interpretation, and conclusions. The results of this study indicate that there is a concept of heteronormative values reflected through heterosexuals who are considered to damage the stability of transvestite life, so that heterosexuals are considered as 'the other' heteronormative. Keywords: Film, Lovely Man, Heteronormativity, Other.

The End of the Frame

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-256
Author(s):  
Victor Burgin
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Audience Behavior

The chapter continues a decades long engagement by Victor Burgin with the theoretical work of Laura Mulvey as in pertains to cinema theory, panoramic perception, narration, memory and time. The chapter links these issues to how they are addressed and used in Burgin's practice and theoretical writing. The chapter includes Barthes in the discussions of cinematic theory in discussion with photographic theory through artistic practice that foregrounds modes of moving image narrative capacities for theatre and gallery-based spectators. Two kinds of narrative practices emerge, each relevant to spectatorship and viewing situation, as well as art work. The opposition between movement and still, the chapter argues, is not to be reduced to the distinction in narrative theory between 'narrative' and 'image', but is rather a matter of two kinds of narrative structure historically located in two kinds of architectural setting, each presupposing its own specific form of audience behavior.

scholarly journals Representasi dan Komodifikasi Kepiluan dalam Film Dancing In The Rain

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-221
Author(s):  
Ilma Saakinah Tamsil
Keyword(s):  
Image Formation ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Tzvetan Todorov

The film tells stories and theme about the suffering of others as a humanist always aim to arouse the emotions and feelings of the audiences. This Film get a lot of positive responses from various parties, especially films that emphasize the sorrow. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the narrative structure of the film Dancing In The Rain as a representation and commodification of depression for the audience. The author uses a qualitative descriptive study in which the representation and commodification of heartache in Dancing In The Rain movie is analyzed through the analysis of narrative structure according to Tzvetan Todorov, the presentation of moral values in the film, and the relation with the culture industry as a medium for image formation. How the sadness and heartache of autistic sufferers is commodified as a product that entertains and motivates the audiences. The conclusion, the reality in the film will be a learning through representation and the commodification of heartache give a description of the conditions, experiences and problems faced by the main character (autistic sufferers) struggling to faced life.

We have a place in a long story

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaul R. Shenhav
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
The Us ◽  
Interpretive Communities ◽  
Political Actions

The article discusses the relevance of narrative theory to the study of politics. It claims that the structure of narratives creates a sense of continuity, which is central to the construction of community. Following this claim, the article demonstrates the potential value of combining the study of political narratives with a study of political actions of empowering those who construct them. It presents a study of the closing statements of US presidential debates as a source of narratives related by politicians, and voting records as an indicator of the power given by the people to those politicians. This study explores the correlation between narrative structure as a textual means of constructing continuity and the power given, by the public, to politicians who produce the narratives. It shows that this correlation tends to be higher in counties located in the eastern US and in counties that tend to be more Republican. This finding, the article suggests, indicates the establishment of different Interpretive Communities in the US.

scholarly journals STRUKTUR NARASI NOVEL SEJARAH ISLAM 17 RAMADAN

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Moh. Wakhid Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Linear Structure ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Holy Place

17 Ramadan is a historical islamic novel by Jurji Zaidan. This is the fourth of his twenty-three historical novel. 17 Ramadan is originally published by al-Hilal newspaper. This novel tells about the events before and after the murder of Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib on 17 Ramadan. This article presents the narrative  structure  of  the  novel  with a structural analysis of Greimas’ narrative theory. This research aims to identify the structural action with binary opposition; the sender-recipient, subject and object, and the adjuvant-obstacle. The result finds that there are four main actantial structures. These structures construct five macrostructures, those are the linear structure of revenge-action-judgement, the structure of the characters’ vindication, the linear structure of insult-thesanity-and-holy-place-chastisement, the structure with isotope of place clarification, and the structure of heroine.

Anaphora in Popular Stories: Implications for Narrative Theory

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Story Grammar ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Conceptual Dependency

Recent work in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and computer science, has been rife with theories of narrative, in particular narrative structure. The goal of this article is to evaluate, by exploring data on anaphora in narratives, two specific models of narrative structure, Story Grammar and Conceptual Dependency, whose underlying assumptions are shared by a wide range of theorists and to comment in general on re-visioning narrative theory.

Toxicity in Themes of Control: An Analysis of the Anglo-Western Cancer Rhetoric in A Monster Calls

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Natali Cavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The World

While infection has always haunted civilizations around the world, there are very few diseases that have had as much of an impact on Western culture as cancer has. The abundance of bereavement literature about characters with cancer begs the question; why cancer? This paper discusses ways in which cancer narratives reinforce Western obsession with control, through the lens of rhetoric and narrative structure. The author will specifically discuss how Patrick Ness’ 2011 novel, A Monster Calls, combats modern illness and cancer narratives and challenges themes of control threaded into Western culture

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