The theories of
Vladimir Propp, Tzvetan Todorov and Bordwell Thompson & Claude Levi-Strauss can all be applied to the narrative structure of films such as Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror favorite;
The Shining.
In our previous lessons we have been looking at the 4 marrative Threorists. these are todorov, vladimir propp, claude levi-strauss and bordwell and thompson. we then talked and tried to apply these theory to The Shining, (a 1980 horror)
Firstly I will look at
propp, he worked on Russian folk tales and proposed a set of
narrative and character functions. He looked at hundreds of folk tales and identified
character roles and thirty-one narrative schemes. The eight character roles are the villain(s), the hero, the donor who provides an object with some magic property, the helper who aids the hero, the princess the reward for the hero, her father who rewards the hero, the dispatcher who sends the hero on his way and the false hero. All these different functions and roles that Propp thought of can be
in any type of description. This theory is very well examined because in most films especially in the category Horror, you can fit all the characters into one of these categories.
Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian Structuralist linguist issuing influential work on narrative from the 1960s onwards. Todorov said that the stories begin with equilibrium or status quo where
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