Culture and Society
Tim O'Sullivan argues that all media tells us some kind of story. Through careful mediation, media texts offer a way of telling stories about ourselves - not usually our own personal stories, but the story of us as a culture or set of cultures. Narrative theory sets out to shoe that what we experience when we 'read' a story is to understand a particular set of constructions or conventions, and that it is important to be aware of how these constructions are out together.
- Narrative: The structure of a story.
- Diegesis: The fictional space and time implied by the narrative - the world in which the story itself takes place.
- Verisimilitude: Literally the quality of appearing to be real or true. For a story to engage us, it must appear to be real to us as we watch it, known as the verisimilitude effect. The story must therefore have verisimilitude - following the rules of continuity, temporal and spacial coherence.
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