Vladimir Propp
he believed some narratives have character roles and functions.
he analysed a whole series of Russian folk tales in the 1920's and decided that the same events kept being repeated in each of the stories, creating a consistent framework.
Main Theories:
the villain; who struggles with the hero (formally known as the antagonist)
the donor
the helper
the princess,
a sought-for person (and/or her father) who exists as a goal and often recognises and marries hero and/or punishes villain
the dispatcher
the hero; who departs on a search (seeker-hero), reacts to the donor and weds
the false hero (antihero or usurper) who claims to be the hero, often seeking and reacting like a real hero (i.e by trying to marry the princess)
Life On Mars
Hero- Sam Tyler
Villain- Collin Reams
Princess- Myia
False Hero- Gene Hunt
Roland Barthe
- born: 12 November 1915
- died: 1980
- French theorist, philosopher, critic and semiotician
- he had a license in grammer and philosophy
- 1953 he made his full length work writing degree zero
- theories: cultural, action, symbolic and enigma
Todorov
- born: 1 March 1939
- he had influences from the 1960's and further
- published 21 books
- theories: - stories start with an equal balance of opposing forces
- the balance is then thrown by an event
- this causes a problem which needs to be solved
- for life on mars: gets trapped in the past through the car crash and then he tries to solve the problem by getting back to thecurrent day
Levi-Strauss
- French theorist
- dies at the age of 100
- around the war period he was very influential
- theory: there are always binary opposites in films
- life on mars: the obvious contrast between the 70's and the present day
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