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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
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The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.read more
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The Beholder's Tale: Ancient Sculpture, Renaissance Narratives
TL;DR: This article found a number of works illustrating tales that would have been immediately recognizable to fifteenth-century viewers, such as a woman and a swan or a boy falling from a horse-drawn chariot, when there is a massive pitched battle in which some of the combatants are identifiable as women or (alternatively) as centaurs.
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The function of the portrayal of the debate in the Gospel of Mary: making authority claims by appealing to the contemporary models of authority
TL;DR: The authors argued that the assumption of intergroup or intra-group polemical context has colored the interpreation of what Peter says in the story world and argued that such interpretation fails to keep the larger narrative in view and does not account for the plot, characterization, and literary techniques employed to impact the implied reader.
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Mirroring Ghanaian society through slice-of-life radio advertisements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored radio advertising in Ghana, focusing on the characteristics of a genre that is often termed "slice-of-life" and that is popular with advertising producers.
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For Television-Centered Television Criticism: Lessons from Feminism
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of subordination to reflect on the state of television criticism in the hegemony of literary elitists is presented. And the liberation of television from its literary and film heritage is seen in the recognition of the oppositional potential of television's melodramatic form, the issues of bardic traps, empiricist criteria, corporate authorship and viewer autonomy are discussed.
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Analysing characters' interactions in filmic text: a functional semiotic approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analytical tool for constructing characters' action patterns in film, based on the co-patterning of textual elements in film and how the patterns provide an analytical foundation for understanding and interpreting characters.