Saturday, 19 September 2015

Bordwell and Thompson (1997) (Narrative)



Bordwell and Thompson are husband and wife who made the theory that offers two distinctions between story and plot which relate to the diegetic world of the narrative that the audience are positioned to accept and that which the audience actually see.

They based this on Russian film theory:

 Fabula (story) is all the events in the narrative that we see and infer. The fabula is defined as the chronological series of events that are represented or implied.

Syuzhet (plot) everything visible and audibly present before us. Syuzhet is considered to be the order, manner and techniques of their presentation in the narrative .


Beautiful South - 'Song for Whoever' proves their theory.

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