The document summarizes several narrative and film theories introduced by thinkers such as Tzvetan Todorov, Vladimir Propp, Claude Levi Strauss, Roland Barthes, Carol Clover, and Sigmund Freud. It discusses their concepts of classic narrative structure, character archetypes, the role of conflict and resolution in stories, how audiences derive pleasure from predictable and unpredictable events, gender dynamics like the "Final Girl" trope in horror films, and Freud's model of the id, ego and superego.