CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roland Barthes, Diegesis
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Week 3 (lecture notes)- tuesday, september 29th 2015. Under an almost infinite diversity of forms, narrative is present in every age, in every place, in every society; it begins with the very history of mankind and there nowhere is nor has been a people without narrative. All classes, all human groups have their narratives, enjoyment of which is very often shared by men with different, even opposing, cultural backgrounds. Caring nothing for the division between good and bag literature narrative is international, trans historical, transcultural. (cid:523)roland barthes, (cid:498))ntroduction to the structural analysis of the. Narrative (cid:498)a chain of events linked by case and effect and occurring in time and space(cid:499) (cid:523)73(cid:524) Key items will reappear in a film at some point before it is over (eg if a gun is presented, gun shots will appear later) Beginning is defined by equilibrium; middle by disequilibrium and the end y an equilibrium once again (three act structure) beginning, middle, end.
