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Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 364 g
Structure, Meaning, and Narrative Design Across Media
Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 364 g
ISBN: 978-3-8252-6542-7
Verlag: UTB GmbH
Stories capture our attention, evoke emotions, foster empathy, and shape the way we understand and remember the world.
This book offers a systematic introduction to th e principles of storytelling across different media. Drawing on classical narrative theory as well as practical dramaturgy, Joachim Friedmann, Professor of Interactive Dramaturgy and writer for television, games, and comics, explores how stories are constructed through characters, conflicts, transformations, and narrative worlds.
From Aristotle’s concept of peripeteia to modern film dramaturgy and interactive game narratives, the book examines the structural patterns that shape stories in literature, film, television, and digital media. By bringing together narratology, dramaturgy, and media studies, it presents storytelling as both an analytical method and a creative craft.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationstheorie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface to the 2nd edition
1 Storytelling – More than Just Telling a Story
Part I: The Analysis
2 The Narrative Figure – Life, Theme, Function
2.1 Functional Figures
2.2 Mimetic Figures
2.3 Thematic Figures
2.4 Anti-narrative Figures
3 Setting – The Narrated and the Narrative Space
3.1 Juri Lotman and Semantic Space
3.2 Other Options for Spatial Semantisation
3.3 Hierarchisation of Spatial Events
4 Binary Narrative Oppositions – Opposites Make Sense
4.1 The Meaning of the Narrative
4.2 Production of Meaning through Binary Narrative Oppositions
4.3 Idea vs. Counter Idea – Narrative Oppositions in Film Dramaturgy
4.4 Binary Narrative Oppositions as a Structuring Principle in Serial and Interactive Narratives
5 Conflict – Obstacles Generate Action
5.1 Conflicts as Initial Triggers for Action
5.2 Basic Forms of Conflict
5.3 The Universal Conflict
5.4 Conflict Types and Types of Plot
5.5 Want and Need
6 Transformation – What Needs to Change?
6.1 Transformation vs. Change
6.2 Transformation as a Criterion of Closure
6.3 The Cyclic Transformation
6.4 Transformations in Interactive Narratives
7 Emotion – The Progression of Feelings
7.1 Emotions as Genres
7.2 Emotional Progression as a Structural Principle of Narratives
8 Turning Points – The Expected Surprise
8.1 Theoretical Concepts of the Turning Point
8.2 The Turning Point in Applied Dramaturgy
8.3 The Effects of Turning Points in Literature and Film
8.4 Turning Points and Transformation in Interactive Narratives
9 Narrative Structure – The Hero’s Journey in Three Acts
9.1 Dramatic Structure
9.2 Mythological Structure
9.3 Oral Structure
9.4 Interactive Structure
10 Causal Relationships – Why Things Happen?
10.1 Causality as a Condition for Narrativity
10.2 Forms of Causality
10.3 Forms of Non-causal Narrative
10.4 Causality and Interactivity
11 Subtext and Gapping – Involving the Recipients
11.1 Gapping as a Text – and Media-Specific Strategy
11.2 Subtext
11.3 Narrative Tension and the Management of Information
11.4 Information Management in Interactive Stories
12 Semantic Objects – McGuffins, Horcruxes and Holy Grails
12.1 Plot-functional vs. Non-functional
12.2 Semantic Objects in Narrative Media
12.3 The Semantisation of Objects as a Communication Strategy
Part II: Creating Stories
13 The Story from Structure
14 The Story from Character
15 The Story from Theme
16 The Story from the Storyworld
17 Epilogue: Values and Worldview
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