2005
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511811760
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Narrative and Media

Abstract: Narrative and Media, first published in 2006, applies narrative theory to media texts, including film, television, radio, advertising, and print journalism. Drawing on research in structuralist and post-structuralist theory, as well as functional grammar and image analysis, the book explains the narrative techniques which shape media texts and offers interpretive tools for analysing meaning and ideology. Each section looks at particular media forms and shows how elements such as chronology, character, and foc… Show more

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“…In addition, sometimes there is a gap between the design of the video commercial and the needs of the advertiser. In other words, advertising agencies hope to promote their branding products using creativity23, whereas the advertisers are more focused on product performance and information regarding all of the branding products that is conveyed to the public45. This conflict can be resolved by analyzing the views of the consumer or the audience.…”
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“…In addition, sometimes there is a gap between the design of the video commercial and the needs of the advertiser. In other words, advertising agencies hope to promote their branding products using creativity23, whereas the advertisers are more focused on product performance and information regarding all of the branding products that is conveyed to the public45. This conflict can be resolved by analyzing the views of the consumer or the audience.…”
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“…In a similar way, narrative patterns such as the disappearance of old media participate in the construction of "biographic accounts" of media, shaping how new and old technologies are represented and imagined within the public sphere. As Helen Fulton (2005: 7) rightly observes, it is by employing existing narrative patterns that one structures and makes sense of new experiences and events. The myth of the disappearing medium, in this sense, employs a fictional trope that is deeply engrained in Western culture: the idea that each epoch is characterized by the end of what came before, and the beginning of something new (Kermode, 18 2000).…”
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“…As narrativas dos media, tal como as outras, são contadas a partir de perspetivas específicas, privilegiando certos pontos de vista e certas versões, em detrimento de outras, construindo personagens, dando voz a determinados atores sociais e silenciando outros. Saber o que as histórias mediáticas nos contam e aquilo que escondem ou omitem é crucial para entender o exercício de poder em sociedade e para perceber que sentidos são produzidos (Fulton, 2005).…”
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