Storytelling

Everyone knows about the American movie business. Millions of dollars go into financing big movie projects just to entertain ourselves away from the real world, and millions of dollars are sent back in tickets to go see these films. Certainly, this business has been booming for the past one-hundred years, and we keep on fueling the fire. Movies aren’t just about entertainment only. Many films have become part of the American culture, and many films from the US show how Americans think and…

This is the power of narrative, it evokes feeling, leaving responders sometimes in their comfort zones, and sometimes out of their comfort zones as well, in order to demonstrate the composers ideas and claims. It is characterised in its ability to inspire, entertain, persuade, and inform. Every culture has defining stories, stories about who we are, where we came from, how we got here and what we believe. These stories about group identity and cultural transmission encapsulate values, goals,…

Stories The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a fictional story that exhibits love, loss, war, coming-of-age, innocence, and so much more. O’Brien explores all of these themes through an even bigger topic: storytelling. He also inversely picks apart the various aspects of storytelling via the smaller themes. One of the products of this analysis that I find to be most intriguing is the resurrecting power of stories. O’Brien asserts that stories have the capability of bringing life back to…

that don’t conform to narrative storytelling norms. Jason Mittell’s conceptualization of “narrative complexity” analyzes the mechanics behind shows such as Game of Thrones; their unconventional storytelling becoming more of the norm for contemporary television. Within narrative complexity, Mittell explores television shows’ operational aesthetics, which are seen in Game of Thrones’ unorthodox plot structure. The economic decisions behind Game of Thrones storytelling techniques are also critiqued…

Throughout literature history, many works have been cited as influential to literature and society. Works such as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and The Holy Bible are accredited as influential pieces of literature. These works have drastically changed today’s society. However, Alf Layla Wa-Layla’s The Thousand and One Nights is not thought of as influential literary piece. The revolutionary ideas this story conveys,…

actor, Martin Bonger is narrating a story to the audience. It is a dramatic production, there is a set, music, the performer has a costume and yet it also clearly storytelling. This reading will explore the signs that might define where this performance is storytelling and where it is acting or a blend of both. Although the word “storytelling” has many uses and meanings in this reading it is being understood in the…

Shakespeare uses a storytelling framework to create an image of Caesar as something inhuman by first building him up as untouchable, myth-like god and then breaking him down into something less then human. Shakespeare employs this storytelling technique to not only portray Caesar as a weak man, but also rise the audience’s suspicion over Cassius motivations. Shakespeare in the beginning of the passage frames how Cassius wants his audience to hear his speech as an act of storytelling…

Aural As previously mentioned, Corner states that the aural category of documentary aesthetics is strongly linked to images and because of this could be considered a secondary aesthetic. While I agree that documentary television was considered less aesthetically inclined during the early 2000s, I’d argue that recent television documentaries, like O.J.: Made in America, have reversed what Corner is suggesting. Edelman often allows the aural contents of the narrative to take the lead in parts of…

The Listing section, I had to listen to her interview before I was able to engage with the actual apartment listing. Although these limitations are small, I believe that this interactive short is something that has challenged how other people see storytelling…

In Pamela Petty’s The Baby and the Bathwater: A Tale of Standards and Storytelling, she made the argument that the practice of storytelling needs to play a more integral part in today’s education system. According to Petty, the process of telling stories helps students retain knowledge and learn course material through the use of interesting tales not found in textbooks or through the use of technology. By using storytelling in different forms (music, poems, books, oral stories, etc.), educators…