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21M08010 - Prica i medij

Course specification
Course title
Acronym 21M08010
Study programme
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Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
    Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
      ESPB 6.0 Status
      Condition Oblik uslovljenosti
      The goal This course is meant to provide students with the tools necessary for studying today’s manifold uses of the notion of narrative. Its aim is to help students grasp the significance of the concept of story for understanding a variety of contemporary cultural practices – from traditional narrative arts (literature, theatre, cinema), via only marginally or conditionally narrative art forms (such as architecture and music) to more recent, digital and interactive forms of narration (gaming). The course also has a methodological aspect, whose aim is to address the theoretical implications of a paradigm shift within narratology – a discipline that has evolved during the last two decades by recasting the traditional objects of its study (narrative and story) as transmedial concepts.
      The outcome
      Contents
      Contents of lectures (1) Introduction: what is narrative? (2) Further complications: defining story, narration, discourse, and medium (3) In the beginning: Victor Shklovsky, formalist theory of narrative and its heritage (4) Transmedial narratology from Barthes to Ryan (5) Narrative vs. dramatic arts (6) Marginally and conditionally narrative art forms (7) Narratology vs. ludology: narrative in video games (8) Interactive narratives and the culture of convergence (9) Conclusion: what's left of narrative?
      Contents of exercises Independent research project.
      Literature
      1. J. Ch. Meister (ed.) Narratology beyond Literary Criticism. Mediality, Disciplinarity. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2005. (Original title)
      2. Ryan, Marie-Laure. Avatars of Story. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. (Original title)
      3. Thon, Jan- Noël. Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. (Original title)
      4. Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press, 2006. (Original title)
      5. Culler, Jonathan. ‘Story and discourse in the analysis of narrative’, The Pursuit of Signs. London and New York: Routledge, 2005, 188–208. (Original title)
      Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
      Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
      2 2
      Methods of teaching
      Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
      Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
      Activites during lectures 10 Test paper 70
      Practical lessons Oral examination
      Projects 20
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      Seminars