Narrative

went through. Logos is showed the least because Vladek is a credible source and does not need much factual support to believe and understand his story. Art shows the audience that the inner story is believable, through him writing down his father’s narrative in the outer story; this creates ethos. Even though some of the appeals are utilized more than others, all of them are present in Maus. These different constructions of ethos, pathos and logos support Vladek’s story and help the audience…

Mary Shelley uses frame story in Frankenstein in order to help the reader interact with each character through a different perspective. Literature works that are mainly built around the story device allow readers to foreshadow upcoming events while providing a brief transition into the next story. Due to that structure and literary device, Shelley allows the reader to thoroughly understand the stories. There are three narrators in Shelley’s novel: Walton, Victor, and the Monster. The novel…

The present study has made a thorough examination of the eleven films directed by TV Chandran made during the period 1989 to 2011 constituting his sample. The methodology applied for the same was semiology. Paradigmatic and synatagmatic analysis of the film text, and examined various signs and its signification, detonative and connotative means of the text, metaphor, metonymy, binary oppositions, dreams and hallucinations, historical allegories, codes, historical parallels, and Marxian analysis…

Within the musical film genre, the use of music is essential to the film narrative and plot structure. Many of the classic musicals, like Singin’ in the Rain, use this use of musical numbers to not only further the plot but also the individual character narrative. With this integration of music, these musicals are typically referred to as integrated musicals. This integration is usually expressed through a scene within a scene setting (ie. Make em’ Laugh sequence in Singin’ in the Rain) Pennies…

Because of its social and political aspects, Kalidar is a modern work that has some characteristics of Greek romance, in its Bakhtinian definition, such as the importance of chance, fate, and “sudden time.” Bakhtin uses two terms in order to explain the time in Greek romance, “suddenly” and “at just that moment” (Dialogic Imagination 95). From them, he concludes with the other concept, “adventuristic chance time” through which human life changes mostly based on chance (Ibid 94). Moreover, the…

David Cook explores the development of how a film should tell a story and Méliès introduced different types of developments by inventing various special effects techniques. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson argue that still photos were put together to make film during 1890s, photography were cheap as well as the most efficient way of generating thousands of images. This section focuses on the technological history as inventors created different types of camera. One of the tricks Méliès…

Through movies we can time travel to places we could only dream of. They narrate stories that are a combination of our personal experiences as well as projections of our mind. The narratives cannot be comprehended nor imagined without architectural spaces. It is this very architectural layer in movies that strings the narrative, the characters and the idea into a gripping plot that leaves behind a powerful imprint on the viewers’ minds. Movies exaggerate emotions and architecture is one of the…

included to give facts to the viewers. Entertaining the audience is the purpose of the characters in The Walk meaning they are able to develop and be given a backstory. The Walk, features Papa Rudy to be Phillippe’s mentor and add more depth to the narrative. Papa Rudy is not in Man on Wire as he was not directly involved in the crossing and therefore has little to add in terms of factual information. In the film, Annie is a busker who also attends art school and Jeff is a maths teacher which…

psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart the traditional conventions of filmmaking, that include linear narrative, smooth camera movement and concept of the protagonist-hero. For his prowess, he has been hailed as one of the most importatn modern filmmakers of the world and his films have screened all over, winning a…

creating reader bias. Unlike the narration of The Scarlet Letter, Yunior injects his own opinions and commentary into the narrative. Although having this Dominican narrator may help readers understand Dominican culture better and the role of individuals within society, ultimately readers may have a harder time formulating their own opinions about Oscar and result to Yunior’s narrative. This concept presents itself even on the first page of the novel as Yunior describes Oscar as “never [having]…