Narrative and Genre Key Concepts in Media

Narrative and Genre introduces students to two key concepts in Media Studies, complementing Image and Representation published in 1998. The book covers the major narrative theorists and is illustrated with numerous case studies including The X-Files , Wuthering Heights , Se7en , and newspaper reporting. A brief history of narrative in literature surveys text from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Paul Auster's postmodern Ghost . The section on genre offers exhaustive case studies on film noir and the "hard-boiled" detective novel, the TV cop genre, and soap opera.

Nick Lacey is head of Media Studies at Benton Park School in West Yorkshire.

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

1

(248)

The structure of the series of books

1

(1)

The structure of the book

2

(3)

Introduction to Narrative Theory

5

(73)

Introduction

5

(1)

Once upon a time-openings

6

(7)

What is narrative?

13

(10)

Todorov and narrative structure

23

(23)

Propp's narrative functions

46

(18)

Levi-Strauss and binary oppositions

64

(8)

Barthes's narrative codes

72

(6)

A History of Narrative

78

(22)

Introduction

78

(1)

The Epic of Gilgamesh

79

(2)

Aristotle's theory of art

81

(1)

The oral tradition

82

(4)

Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur)

86

(2)

Shakespeare

88

(1)

The novel

89

(1)

Romanticism

90

(2)

Modernism

92

(1)

Postmodernism

93

(7)

Theory of Narrative 2

100

(32)

Introduction

100

(1)

More advanced narrative theory

101

(6)

Narrative voice

107

(11)

Ideological narrative analysis-The Searchers

118

(3)

Alternative narrative systems

121

(8)

Alternative narrative and documentary

129

(3)

Theory of Genre 1

132

(79)

Introduction

132

(3)

Generic conventions

135

(1)

The basic schema of genre

136

(6)

Genre and society

142

(1)

Film noir and `hard-boiled' crime novels-the repertoire of elements

143

(20)

The TV cop genre: NYPD Blue-oppositions in genre

163

(4)

Science fiction-repertoire of elements and history

167

(30)

Melodrama-a genre and a style

197

(8)

Genre and format

205

(6)

Theory of Genre 2

211

(38)

Introduction

211

(1)

Genre-the chicken or the egg?

211

(2)

Twelve generic approaches to media texts

213

(2)

Genre as Jungian myth

215

(6)

Genre and gender-soap opera

221

(4)

Generic cycles

225

(9)

Non-realistic genres-horror

234

(4)

Genre and semiotics

238

(5)

Ideology and genre criticism

243

(2)

Genres and scheduling

245

(3)

Conclusion: narrative and genre

248

(1)

Appendix 1

249

(3)

Basic Instinct

249

(1)

Paul Verhoeven

Nora Prentiss

249

(1)

Vincent Sherman

Psycho

250

(1)

Alfred Hitchcock

The Searchers

250

(1)

John Ford

Strange Days

250

(1)

Kathryn Bigelow

The Usual suspects

251

(1)

Bryan Singer

Appendix 2: Popular culture genres

252

(4)

Television

252

(1)

Movies

253

(1)

Video

254

(1)

Books

255

(1)

Bibliography

256

(8)

Index

264

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