THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture 5: Linear Narrative Conventions and their Consequences and Theatre and Cinema as Cultural Products and Producers of Culture
23 Jan 2019
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Stories behind the picture: from now on, forums are going to have a due date. It was a recreation of hamlet but modernized to the setting of a school dorm. His uncle claudius was watching him through the computer. When doing the project, we have to look at what is happening in a particular scene and how it connects to everything else. Tragedy is the imitation of an action . Aristotle says every good action has a beginning, a middle, and an end . This seems obvious, but it is actually brilliant. Our lives don"t have definite beginnings, and they have undefinable ends. The action of tragedy is that a great person falls to destruction. He analyzed fairy tales and found repeated patterns. In the shows he watched, heros >object. In addition, though, there has to be certain obstacles to increase the drama. In theatre and film analysis we generally refer to the hero as the protagonist.
