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Narrative and Genre

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Description for Narrative and Genre Paperback. This text introduces students to key concepts in media studies. It covers the major narrative theorists including Todorov, Propp, Levi Strauss, and Barthes and applies their ideas via case examples ranging from "The X Files" to newspaper reporting. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 4KL; JFD. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
Narrative and Genre introduces students to these key concepts in media studies, complementing Image and Representation published in 1998. It covers the major narrative theorists including Todorov, Propp, Levi-Strauss, Barthes and applies their ideas via case examples ranging from The X Files to newspaper reporting. It then moves on to offer an extensive analysis of the basic schema and conventions of genre, drawing on the film noir, the TV cop genre and science fiction for examples, and showing how the repertoire of elements of each ranges across setting, character, narrative, iconography, style and stars. Fresh, down-to-earth and well-structured, this is ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333658727
SKU
V9780333658727
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About Nick Lacey
NICK LACEY is the Curriculum Leader of Film and Media Studies at Benton Park School in West Yorkshire. He has worked in a variety of media institutions, including Times Newspapers, EMAP and Yorkshire Television. He is the popular and respected author of Image and Representation, Media Institutions and Audiences and Introduction to Film.

Reviews for Narrative and Genre
'The second in the Key Concepts series, this clearly presented textbook should reassure A-level pupils new to the subject and yet avoid patronising undergraduates. The exercises are humorously presented and Lacey negotiates the complexities of narrative theory with confidence.' - Sight and Sound 'An admirable effort at achieving a balance between the complexity of the codes and conventions and ... Read more

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