Storytelling on Screen

.Storytelling on Screen:.Traditions in Narrative and the Age of Visual Culture..Table of Content.Part I. Key Concepts: Storytelling, Genre, Drama. * The Roots of Symbolic Narrative: Storytelling, Experience, and Community . * The Tree of Genres: Narrative Formulas and Cultural Functions . * From Story to Spectacle: The Art of Dramatic Storytelling .Part II. Pivotal Protagonists and Symbolic Narratives. * Tragedy vs. Thriller. Narrating the Events of Death from Aristotle to Hitchcock . * The Hero's Journey: Sons of Prometheus and the Paradigm of Death-Rebirth . * The Fool's Joke: Carnivals, Reversible Worlds, and Paradoxes of Topsy-Turvy . * Stories of Extraordinary Ordinary People or the Expressiveness of Realism: .The Naked Man, The Little Man, The Everyman, and The Mass-Man. * Tales of Rebellion: Noble Thieves and Outcasts as Heroes and Villains: .Loss of Freedom and Jail House Tales from Spartacus to the Cuckoo's Nest. * The Tradition of The Antihero: The Dangerous Protagonist and His Path to Power ...Part III: Experimental Fiction and Possible Worlds. * Narrative Chronotopes: Journeys in the Time and Space of Fictional Worlds . * Modernist Paradigms: New Narrative and the Birth of Experimental Storytelling . * Postmodern Paradigms: Antinarrative and the Death of Story . * America's Favorites: Murder Mystery, Film Noir, and Narratives of Suspense. .The Tradition of Narrative Maze from Ritual Riddle to Popular Culture. * Transcendental Narrative: Reaching to the Beyond by Telling a Story . * Cops, Doctors, Friends, and Dysfunctional Families. Making Home Improvement in the Full House: Storytelling on TV and the Symbolic Construction of Community. . * Homer on the Hollodeck: The Future of Storytelling and the Poetics of Tomorrow - Is It Interactive? Hyperreal? Multinarrative? Polyphonic? Transcultural? ...