THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture 6: Week 3

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 1T03
• Professor: Peter Cockett

Document Summary

Aristotle says every good action has a beginning, a middle and an end : the action of tragedy is that a great person falls to destruction, formal elements of the action of a play. Anagnorisis recognition/discovery: sometimes they occur together sometimes separately, oedipus. Films and plays often feature several of these. In theatre and film analysis we generally refer to the hero as the protagonist. In possible world of the play or film. In relation to cultural discourses of the creators" society. In relation to the cultural discourse in our own society: the lion king. In tragedy, an empathizing audience will share in the pain and suffering of the protagonist. Aristotle called this catharsis and believed it was key to the social function. The problem with linear narratives: the perspective of one. Through whose eyes are we seeing the possible world of the play or film: arguing that we see through human eyes is not acceptable.