https://padlet.com/stuartgrenvilleprice/o2m6zslxwq1g The main areas of Section C to cover/revise are as follows: Narrative Structure - Understand the narrative shape/progression of the films. Key Themes - Identify key hemes in the narrative (conflict) Narration - Understand narrative positioning. Characters - Understand the characters’ objectives and relationships. Choose key narrative sequences Do a character / representation study for main characters. Genre - Understand the genre and how far the film fit into the genre. Micro Features - Offer evidence in terms of micro features from key scenes to back up your points en-us 2016-05-09 19:54:53 UTC 2025-11-02 18:45:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/smiley.jpg stuartgrenvilleprice https://padlet.com/stuartgrenvilleprice/o2m6zslxwq1g/wish/110043953 2016-05-10 09:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/stuartgrenvilleprice/o2m6zslxwq1g/wish/110043953 stuartgrenvilleprice https://padlet.com/stuartgrenvilleprice/o2m6zslxwq1g/wish/110043991 Single-strand - Robert Neville's story
Non-Linear narrative - flashbacks (TOM daydreaming, IAL nightmares)
Epistolary style - legacy/intertextual reference  Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1897, and Matheson's novella, I am Legend.
Closed - ending on a message of hope - for mankind
Film Paradigm
US film paradigm - ascending action to a point of climax (violent)
Diegesis
Fin de Siècle - Themes - end of the era/century
Classic Hollywood Narrative

Claude Lèvi-Strauss - Binary Oppositions - 
Operate over the duration of the film - on symbolic level.
Good v Evil - Light v Dark
Day v Night
Inside v Outside
Science v Nature
Darwinism v Creationisim
Human v Monster
'Norm' v the 'Other'
EXPOSITION 
DEVELOPMENT 
COMPLICATION 
CLIMAX 
RESOLUTION

Tzvetan TODOROV -
Equilibrium 
Disequilibrium
(new) Equilibrium

Vladimir Propp - 7 characters serve 31 functions

Roland Barthes
Referential Codes
Semantic codes- mode of address
Semic Codes
Symbolic Codes
Hermeneutic codes (Enigma)
Proairetic codes (Action)




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- more likely surprises, shocks, jumps
A singular viewpoint
Shot/Revese shot - shot/POV-shots
eye-level angles, head height framings
Cu's, MCUs, ECU, etc - i.e tighter shots
Acts as a barrier mechanism - can be susspenseful etc
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Genre hybridity 
Audience pleasures - benefits to consumer and producers.
Intertextuality (Steven Neale - 'textual poachers', 'textual relay' - homage.
Genre is a formula
Patterns of Repetition and Difference
- or are both Dynamic & Static 
Post-Modernism
Sci-Fi, Action, Survival, Vampire/Horror, Post-Apocalyptic genres. (In Omega Man add Romance & Blaxploitation), 
Conventions - familiar, reassuring
Iconography
Codes - 
Icon/Iconic
Indexical references
Symbolic codes
Utopia v Dystopia
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Decor, 
Props, 
Dress Codes/Costume,  
Hair/Make-Up
CGI and Special Effects
Character position, proxemics, placement and movement
Cinematography
Mise-en-Shot - 
Shot size/camera proxemics, Camera angle,
Focus and depth of field, Framing and composition,
Camera movement 
Editing
Continuity Editing (& features)
Montage & montage theory
Long-takes
Ellipses
Vertiginous editing
Dissolve edit
Straight cut
Performance
Argyll's 10 'Body Codes'
Sound
Diegetic/Non-Diegetic
Foley sound & Sound F/X
Music & diatonic. 

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'Secure' v 'Paranoid' Horror
The 'Other'
Xenophobia
Survival
Lonliness and Solitude
Isolation and Alienation
Pandemic fears
Post 9/11 anxiety
(sexual) Frustration
Religion esp Christian messages 
Science 
Utopia v Dystopia
Vampire threats (analogy)
Moral Panics (Stan Cohen)
Cold-War & the Red Threat
Pandemic Threats & Anxieties
Gender roles - active and passive
Race, Ethnicity and Privilege 

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