Checking date: 22/05/2017


Course: 2017/2018

Film Narrative
(13515)
Bachelor in Film, Television and Media Studies (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 154 - Estudio: 211)


Coordinating teacher: MELERO SALVADOR, JOSE ALEJANDRO

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Introduction to Communication and Media Studies, Reading Moving Image (Film and Television), Media Psychology.
1) Ability to analyse the construction of storytelling. 2) Knowledge of narrative devices and strategies. 3) Familiarisation with the main theories of film narrative and its history. 4) Ability to approach the history of the study of narrative and theory.
Description of contents: programme
1) Voice and Narrator 2) Character and characterisation. 3) The uses of time. 4) Structure and form. Structure vs. form. Formalism. 5) Introduction to Semiotics and Greimas actantial model. 6) The narrative device. Metaphors and running imagery. 7) Introduction to Adaptation Studies. 8) Narrative and Performance.
Learning activities and methodology
All sessions are divided in one LECTURE, based on a theoretical presentation, plus one SEMINAR, in which students work on their practical exercises. Students are expected to attend all sessions and participate in the debates. Deadlines for written work must be strictly met. All students are required to do a presentation; the topics for this will be distributed after week 3. Other in-class excercises include: - Working with metaphors. - Working with estrangement techniques. - The 3-act structure excercise. - Presentation.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Basic Bibliography
  • Gerard Genette. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Cambridge University Press. 1997
  • Hühn, Peter et al. (eds.). The living handbook of narratology. Hamburg University. URL = http://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de/.
  • Robert McKee. Story. HarperCollins Canada. 2004
  • Stephen King. On Writing. Simon and Schuster. 2000
  • Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporary Ordering in Fiction. Johns Hopkins University Press.. 1978
Additional Bibliography
  • Meir Sternberg . Expositional Modes and Temporary Ordering in Fiction.. Baltimore (EE. UU.), Johns Hopkins University Press.. 1978
  • Mick Hurbis-Cherrier. Voice and vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV Production. Routledge. 2011
  • Phil Rosen. Dangerous Corner-Curva Peligrosa. Vértice Cine. 2010
  • Robert Cohen. Acting Power. Routledge. 2013
  • Syd Field. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting: A Step-by-Step Guide from Concept to finished Script . Delta Trade Paperbacks. 2005

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.