Notes from the lecture:

NARRATIVE THEROY 

• formative language 
• Narratives can be simple or complex, understanding 

Key people 

• Vladimir Propp 

Soviet formalist scholar 

Argued that whatever differences there might be in a story you can group together the character types that share 

Characters – prepell or change the drecti0on of the story 

• the villain – opposed hero
• The dispatcher – sends hero on quest 
• The helper – aids hero 
• The princess – héros reward/ object of vilans plot 
• Her father – acts to reward hero 
• The donor – provides magical object 
• The hero – seeks something 
• The flash hero – disrupts hero with fans claims 

American theorist – Joseph Cameron – most influential out of all narrative theorists 

• hero with a thousand faces 
• Hero myth circle 
• Influenced George Lucas very heavily and the starwars films can be seen as a practical embodiment of Camerons ideas particularly of the monomyth or hers journey 

How the old star wars includes more of narrative 

New didn’t work 

Tzvetan Todorov 

• Bulgarian philosopher – structuralist 

Simple fives step 

1. All is well equilbrium 
2. A disruption of that order by an event 
3. A recognition that disorder has occurred 
4. An attempt to repair the damage of disorder 
5. A return or restoration of new equilibrium 

Portagonist –

 Equilberiuum           disruption – quest – climax/ resolution – re equipserim 

Antagonist 

Fritzlang – terminator and the matrix 

Religion is a founding as stories – were people get ides from 

It is all down to our cultural appropriateions

Other binary oppositions 

• goo0d vs evil 
• Male vs female 
• Humanity vs tech 
• Nature vs industrakiastion 
• East vs west 
• Dark vs light 
• morally, dirt vs clean 
• Wild vs civilisation 

Binary upheld ? Or not 

What is the objective ?

We use binary app to understand the world. To use a common example 

The world ‘man’ in English means ‘not animal’ not woman and no boy 

How is poverty represented in the media 

• the depiction is often negatively 
• Uk 14.3 million ppl are in poverty 
• Gif a family hasn’t had education within 3 generations this could be seen as poverty – socially not narratively 

Seabrook, j 2016, cut out living without welfare, London; Pluto press 

Pervasive narratives in the media; ? 

• poverty – what function do the poor perform in society and how is the idea of poverty narrativised in the media as a perversive 

Nottingham slums doc 1969 

• negative, 

Creating this narrative that we should change and give up places that have centimetre and progress in society 

Poor people should not have luxuries 

They get defensive when questioned 

Power inbalance 

Narratives with poverty, are still the narratives we see just with some change 

Benefit street 

• 90% of the residents claimed benefits 
• Uses the same narratives 

How can/ are pervasive media narratives around migration challenged??

A moral critique – what we see in the media it looks real but its biased and subjective 

Further research after Lecture