2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300‚Block 4) work together in any two of the set texts in Block 4? ‘The lure of the real’ (Bogan‚A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300‚Block 4) are used to create dramatic effect and depth to narratives‚ in interesting and diverse ways. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. When the real and the fantastic combine‚ truly delightful and often informative‚ stories are created. Novels differ in their proportional use of realism and fantasy
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The News: Realism‚ Narrative and Form ________________________________________ The questions of Realism‚ bias and representation take us back to the material we looked at in the first two weeks of the course. As I have tried to stress‚ when we look at the issue of "realism" and the "representation of reality" in the media we have to be aware of the fact that the media always presents a "mediated" version of that reality‚ on its own terms. Sociological‚ political‚ cultural and ideological
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movies. In trailers‚ the narrative is often promoted through a film’s characterizations. These appeals to interest in the characters draw audiences to films on the basis of identification with the characters. Audiences are invited to identify with the character’s situation or motivation and to want to participate or share in the film’s resolution. The first person to show up in Fifty Shades of Grey trailer is Ana Steele‚
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first two minutes of the film‚ time is condensed in two ways: by the third person narrative‚ which encapsulates the film’s exposition in the most laconic of terms‚ describing the meeting and developing friendship of Jules and Jim‚ and also by the selective images which largely avoid redunant description of the aural narrative‚
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that represents something else‚ often an idea or something intangible. Connotation: A word used that has attached meanings associated with feelings. Denotation: The exact meaning of the word without the attached meaning Elements of Narrative Protagonist: The main character Antagonist: The character who
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Camus’s use of hyper-realistic imagery seems to be the surface of The Plague’s allegorical and metaphysical narrative. Like most human observations‚ we notice the the obvious first‚ before we pull and prod at the exterior to reveal something more ambiguous and at the same time‚ something rather apparent. In the novel‚ Camus‚ “[juxtaposes] […] the symbolical and the realistic‚” creating a polygonal register where the connotative qualities can be discovered when taking into consideration Camus’s style
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Alfredo Zavala April 16‚ 2013 Editing: Memento & The Hurt Locker Memento is a film in which editing is part of the narrative while The Hurt Locker is a film in which the narrative uses editing. These two great films are very different when examining the editing. For example Memento has a very difficult story to understand due to the editing of the narrative and the story that Leonard Shelby is trying to tell. For the film‚ The Hurt Locker‚ the editing in the film is used to create dramatic
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Philbert’s experience was painful‚ I liked how open he was with his feelings. I think anyone who has a pet can really empathize with him. After reading chapter 15‚ I was able to identify a few components that it talked about. The first component of a narrative that I was able to identify is the author’s use of flashbacks. Philbert tells the events that lead up to putting George down‚ and I noticed two times where he used flashbacks. The author reminisced the times when George would
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Methods section Super heroes and their narratives play an interesting role in the their relationship to fandom‚ whether it be through films or books each story becomes different through fragmented circulation as McGee suggest of which I talked about earlier in this paper. These fragmented or as Jason Mittell suggest trans-mediated narratives add to the stories of these characters. (Mittell‚ 2015) Goes on to define trans-media storytelling as‚ “significantly expanding the scope of a television series
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‘Frankenstein’ - Commentary The extract from ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a narrative of Victor Frankenstein‚ a scientist‚ who has created life from dead matter. He has made a promise to his creature that he would create another monster – a female – for his companionship. He has been working hard on this task alone in his laboratory. Victor contemplates the ramifications of his work on society. He fears that the new monster may become wicked and treacherous‚ maybe even worse
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