Storytelling on Screen

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7377-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Lily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Fernsehdrehbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Storytelling on Screen:.

Traditions in Narrative and the Age of Visual Culture.

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Table of Content.

Part I. Key Concepts: Storytelling, Genre, Drama.

* The Roots of Symbolic Narrative: Storytelling, Experience, and Community
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* The Tree of Genres: Narrative Formulas and Cultural Functions
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* From Story to Spectacle: The Art of Dramatic Storytelling
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Part II. Pivotal Protagonists and Symbolic Narratives.

* Tragedy vs. Thriller. Narrating the Events of Death from Aristotle to Hitchcock
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* The Hero's Journey: Sons of Prometheus and the Paradigm of Death-Rebirth
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* The Fool's Joke: Carnivals, Reversible Worlds, and Paradoxes of Topsy-Turvy
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* Stories of Extraordinary Ordinary People or the Expressiveness of Realism:

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The Naked Man, The Little Man, The Everyman, and The Mass-Man.

* Tales of Rebellion: Noble Thieves and Outcasts as Heroes and Villains:

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Loss of Freedom and Jail House Tales from Spartacus to the Cuckoo's Nest.

* The Tradition of The Antihero: The Dangerous Protagonist and His Path to Power
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Part III: Experimental Fiction and Possible Worlds.

* Narrative Chronotopes: Journeys in the Time and Space of Fictional Worlds
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* Modernist Paradigms: New Narrative and the Birth of Experimental Storytelling
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* Postmodern Paradigms: Antinarrative and the Death of Story
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* America's Favorites: Murder Mystery, Film Noir, and Narratives of Suspense.
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The Tradition of Narrative Maze from Ritual Riddle to Popular Culture.

* Transcendental Narrative: Reaching to the Beyond by Telling a Story
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* Cops, Doctors, Friends, and Dysfunctional Families. Making Home Improvement in the Full House: Storytelling on TV and the Symbolic Construction of Community.
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* Homer on the Hollodeck: The Future of Storytelling and the Poetics of Tomorrow - Is It Interactive? Hyperreal? Multinarrative? Polyphonic? Transcultural?
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Über Autor(innen)

Lily Alexander is currently an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University and Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University. She has published articles in Cinema Journal, Cinema Art, and other journals, as well as in such book collections as Re-Entering the Sign, Comparative Literature Now. She was twice nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award by the students, and is a recipient of such awards and honors as The Killam Memorial Scholarship, The Golda Meir International Fellowship, and The World International Fellowship. She is currently working on two book manuscripts - the proposed Storytelling on Screen: Traditions in Narrative and the Age of Visual Culture, and The Antihero's Journey: The Cultural Topography of Unlimited Power in Literature and Film.