This document provides an overview of narrative and film theory concepts. It defines narrative as a sequence of events known as the plot, and explains that narrative theory describes how those events are structured and presented to an audience. Some key concepts discussed include binary oppositions, narrative equilibrium and disruption, Vladimir Propp's analysis of basic plot components in Russian folktales, and Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective on social interaction.

1. NARRATIVE & FILM
THEORY
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2. Is a sequence of events, known
correctly as the plot
Is the way those events are put
together to be presented to an
audience.

3. • Is the way those events are put together to be presented to an
audience.
• That describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events
• Work of Speech
• Literature Pictures
• Motion Pictures
• Theatre
• Television
• Song
• Writing
• Film
• Photography

5. • Tzvetan Todorov is a philosopher and
cultural critic and the author of over 20
books. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, he has lived
in France since 1963.
• Two of his famous work:
(1991) (2000)

6. • The fictional environment begins with a state of equilibrium
• It then suffers some disruption (disequilibrium)
• New equilibrium is produced at the end of the narrative
Sense of a balance
Sense of unbalance
Sense of a new balance

7. Sam Witwicky Evil The evil
living as Decepticon, decepticon
usual. starts the gets kill by the
attack with his heroic
evil power. Autobot.

8. Peter Parker While he is in the Norman is
living his normal genetics lab gets defeated the city
high school life bitten by a mutant is back to normal.
spider making him
have super powers.

9. • Claude Lévi-Strauss born in 28.11.1908 and
died 30.10.2009. He was a French
anthropologist and ethnologist.
• French anthropologist
whose analysis of kinship
and myth gave rise to
structuralism as an
intellectual force.

10. • A conflict between two qualities or terms
• A binary opposition is a pair of opposites
• In structuralism, a binary opposition is seen as a
fundamental organizer of human philosophy, culture, and
language.
ADULT CHILD
LOVE HATE
RICH POOR
HUMAN ALIEN
MASCULINE FEMININE

11. A boy and girl from differing social
backgrounds meet during the ill-fated maiden
voyage of RMS Titanic.
A long shot of the two A two shot of the ‘Rich’
principle characters dancing people on diner table
on the ‘Poor’ part

12. A poor and passionate young man falls in love
with a rich young woman and gives her a sense
of freedom. They soon are separated by their
social differences.
A mid shot of the two A two shot of the ‘Rich’
principle characters kissing people dancing
next to the simple car. The
‘Poor’ part

13. • Vladimir Propp was a Russian and Soviet
formalist scholar who analyzed the basic
plot components of Russian folk tales to
identify their simplest irreducible narrative
elements.
• Breaking down a large number
of Russian folk tales into their
smallest narrative units, or
narratives, Propp was able to
arrive at a typology of narrative
structures.
A Russian folk tales

14. • The villain (struggles against the hero)
• The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero
some magical object)
• The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the
quest)
• The princess (person the hero marries, often
sought for during the narrative)
• Her father
• The dispatcher (character who makes the lack
known and sends the hero off)
• The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the
donor, weds the princess

15. • Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born sociologist and
writer.
• Goffman was born in 1922 in Mannville, Alberta, Canada to
parents Max Goffman, and his wife, Ann.
• Goffman's greatest
contribution to social
theory is his study of
symbolic interaction in the
form of dramaturgical
perspective that began
with his 1959 book The
Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life.