GER 1791 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cinematic Techniques, Vladimir Propp, Cultural Studies
27 Feb 2017
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Theoretically speaking: interpreting fairy tales from different perspectives. Cultural studies do not focus on the text. Focus on structure alone (motif and word hunting) Only so much you can do with this approach. Vladimir propp, morphology of the folk tale (1958) 31 basic functions of the oral wonder tale. Functions = the fundamental and constant components of a tale that are the acts of a character and necessary for driving the action forward. Introduced in the first part of the 20th century. Relates the formal aspects of the text to the context/culture (e. g. social structure) Opens up a possibility to generate new tales. Ein m rchen in angst und farbe [milk forest. A modern re-telli(cid:374)g of brothers gri(cid:373)(cid:373)(cid:859)s (cid:862)ha(cid:374)sel a(cid:374)d gretel(cid:863) A representative text of the so-(cid:272)alled (cid:862)berli(cid:374) (cid:272)hool(cid:863) Originally applied to graduates of the dffb in berlin (petzold, arslan, schanelec) Not a school, not only berlin film school grads, no defined set of principles.
