Narrative and Genre

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 an excellent text for all those in post-16 education whether in school college or university.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 an excellent text for all those in post-16 education whether in school college or university.