South Downs College
BTEC National Diploma in Media
UNIT1: Understanding the Media Assignment: 4
Task:
Consider the theories of Propp, Todorov and Levi Strauss and discuss the different kinds of narrative structures that are contained within media texts. You should focus on a variety of different media texts and your analysis should be no more then 1500 words.
Vladimir Propp extended the Russian Formalist approach to narratology (the study of narrative structure). Where, in the Formalist approach, sentence structures had been broken down into analysable elements - morphemes - Propp used this method by analogy to analyse folk tales. By breaking down a large number of Russian folk tales into their smallest narrative units - narratemes - Propp was able to arrive at a typology of narrative structures. By analysing types of characters and kinds of action, Propp was able to arrive at the conclusion that there were thirty-one generic narratemes in the Russian folk tale. While......
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Approximate Word Count: 1889
Approximate Pages: 8 (260 words per double-spaced page) |