Narrative Theorists

Whilst studying narrative the 5 main theorists we have been studying and applying to our chosen media texts are:

1. Bordwell and Thompson (1997)

2. Sven Carlson (1999)
Suggests that the 3 main areas of narrative structure are:
1. Performance
2. Narrative
3. Structure

3. Tim O'Sullivan (1998)
Suggests that through careful mediation, media texts offer a way of telling stories about ourselves - not usually personal stories but the story of us as a culture or a set of cultures.

4. Todorov (1977)

5. Pam Cook (1985)
Brings forward the idea of 'The Standard Hollywood Structure:
- linearity of cause and effect within an overall trajectory of enigma resolution
- a high degree of narrative closure
- a fictional world that contains verisimilitude especially governed by spacial and temporal coherence.