COMN 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mircea Eliade, Graeme Turner, Roland Barthes

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Next class, wednesday: test #3 on ch. 14 to 19 + chris lectures. Narrative pleasure (how we come to create tell and like stories) Myth, pleasure and narrative: myths are both foundational stories from antiquity and a set of modern narrative foundations, human beings take great pleasure in telling/writing, and receiving (watching, listening, gaming) stories. The ancient myth of prometheus: frankenstein: it"s alive: frankenstein (2/8) movie clip (1931) hd. Tragedy: tragedy in the modern context if often greek in extraction. Narrative dualisms: realism and fantasy: there are two main approaches to representation in media production. The first is realism, which attempts to represent the world as it is (mimetic). The second, fantasy attempts to represent the world as it could be (interpretive: both represent a world that is not really real. Diegesis: fantasy deals with the imaginary, and stories that are highly improbable or even impossible. Fake film? (youtube videos: georges m li s to.

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