Narrative

impressive short film. While only seven minutes long, Svankmajer is able to project creative yet disturbing images that many critics struggle to give single meaning. The short is full of attractions created with stop-motion editing that creates a strong narrative on humanity. The film begins with darkness just as the title suggest. A door creaks and suddenly a light appears that is shown to be turned on by a clay hand flipping a switch on the wall. The camera pans out to reveal the set is a…

Gone Home is a narrative exploration game by the company Fullbright that stars Kaitlin Greenbriar returning to her family home after being overseas. Gone Home is often questioned on the complexity of its game play, and is often thought to be more of an interactive story, however it does fulfill the requirements of a game and I will be discussing various game play mechanics in Gone Home such as the different objects and their attributes, rules for game play and the overall design that help to…

connects the following paragraphs, on that page, to the main part of the story. The main part of the story’s purpose is to discuss “what it is to be an American” through the idea of inhabitants. Paragraph by paragraph, Narrator pieces together a narrative about his family, and members of a small town, who leave said town to travel East toward Chicago because “the land itself started leaving [and] they had to give up” (Morris). Eventually, Narrator realizes that even though people are…

The characteristic style and rhetoric of Mailer here becomes more a voice and style of “recording.” The author’s function appears to be limited to a purely technical gathering of documentary material, and the narrative as a whole sustains an illusion that the story is being told by the people who know Gilmore. Mailer truly views Gary Gilmore as a self-confident man. When Gilmore is re-introduced to his cousin Brenda in the beginning of the novel, the narrator immediately…

“…most everyone feels that in him or her is a memoir longing to get out;” such are the words of Stella Suberman in her essay appropriately entitled “The Art of Memoir” (11). Suberman, a three-time memoirist herself, draws on an important societal narrative present in an era wrought with social media documentation, docudramas, and an intense national focus on personal identity. While such a psychology of self is by no means a new phenomenon, tendencies toward obsession are arguably nearing a…

it’s almost commical. In their book Looking at Movies, Barsam and Monahan talk about the use of flashbacks to establish narrative. They say that typically films use these flashbacks,” in which the action cuts from the narrative present to a past event.” (Monahan p.345) While this is certainly true of Hot Fuzz, the flashbacks serve to do something more than just give the narrative a jumping off point. You can’t help, but to think that he takes his job a bit too seriously. It’s that juxtaposition…

world of the film in a sonic sense that will affect the viewer subconsciously. It is a defining element in the ambience of a film’s atmosphere, capable of turning a situation from sedentary to tense in a single chord change. It provides a sonic narrative of the plot development, normally moving to different themes and suites for different scenes. People can hear a melody or a movement from their favourite film and immediately be taken back to the palpable emotions conveyed in the exact scene by…

Hi, this is Charlotte, and here is my podcast on my understanding of the stylistic traits of Post-Modernism. For evidence I've chosen the short stories "Song" by Annabelle Lyon and "19 Knives" by Mark Anthony Jarman, along with the podcast "Everything is a Remix", done by Kirby Ferguson. So boiled down, I feel Post-Modernism pushes you to question your trust, both in the narrator and society. First of all, the writers tend to pick a storyline which does not revolve around order, nor come to a…

consciousness, a literary style focused on pure, subjective thoughts, to aid Lacouture. In addition to this definition, the narrative in Amulet bends the perception time to fit its themes about remembrance. Throughout Amulet, Bolaño demonstrates his opposition to the censorship imposed by the Mexican regime on the Tlatelolco massacre by employing the stream of consciousness to tie the narrative to the pivotal event. The manipulation of time continuously brings back the Tlatelolco massacre to…

Film makers spend countless hours studying what makes a film a success. “FX Porn” is an article written by David Foster Wallace in the article he explains how all big producers go through the same strategic route to make a new film that they’re working on a block buster hit. We are walked through the process and given great examples, weather it be through famous actors, cliché scenes, or big budget actions clips it shows that they all do the same thing. Although I do love the big scenes filled…