Week 8 (MIDTERMS) Flashcards
story told primarily through the use of visual media.
Visual Narrative
can communicate or present not just forms, but stories too
pictures-visual culture
Pictures, images and visual objects more generally are not just to be looked at, but contain a story, or a body of information, which we can access as we might access the content of a written text
“A picture paints a thousand words”
It means ‘Story’.
Narrative
It is a latin word _______, which means “To Relate”, so it denotes both what is told and the process of telling
Narrare
the study of narrative
Narratology
It begins with the ancients, and with works such as Aristotle’s Poetics
Narratology
Associated with structuralist like Gerard Genette and Roland Barthes’ early writings
Narratology
They agreed that the first, and central issue about narrative is that stories always operate within a social context.
Narratives theorists
● The way we organize the content of narrative
● who reads it
● what elements it must have
● where it is read
● what it seems to be saying
Cultural Context
What are the basic elements of story
Plot
Narrator
Characters
Events
Time and Place
What happened and why
Plot
The point of view from which it is told
Narrator
Human or otherwise
Character
everything in the story that happens to or because of the characters
Events
in which those events take place, and the casual relations which link events
Time and Place
What are the Characteristics of Features
● The Presence of story is essential
● The visual attempts to communicates the story
● Presence of actors (Participants) is crucial
● The visual exists in universe of its own
