HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sept, Kenneth Burke, Information Age
8 Jan 2017
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No longer restricted to publishers, anyone now. Story telling becomes a method of sustaining culture, teaching values and helping kids. Check slides for this week to see burkes dramatic pentad. The agent is the character that causes the central action. Emphasis of the film is on a character. Get inside the character head, psychological thoughts. The scene is the setting or location film takes place in. Emphasis when setting is located mainly in one sitting spot. Set of actions/events that occur in the storyline. Film focuses more on action then development of character. Agency is the means by which agents are able to perform actions within a given narrative. How creative can the film be by doing the how, heist movies. The purpose is the reason for agents performing actions within a story, both in terms of their desires but also factors that can cause actions.
