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Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life
- Arthur Asa Berger - San Francisco State University, USA
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Popular Culture
Popular Culture
214 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Arthur Asa Berger elucidates narrative theory and applies it to readers' everyday experiences with popular forms of mass media. This unique book demonstrates how to interpret narratives while presenting the analysis in an accessible manner.
The Nature of Narrative
Theorists of Narrativity
Narrative Techniques and Authorial Devices
A Glossary of Terms Relating to Narrative Texts
Dreams
Fairy Tales
The Comics
The Macintosh '1984' Television Commercial
The Popular Culture Novel
Radio Narratives
Film Narratives
Narratives and Everyday Life
This book focuses on narration in lots of different types of media and tells the reader at the same time that narration not only takes place in literature and film. It also can be found in the radio, in dreams, in commercials as well as in the everyday life communication. It postualtes narration as a concept of a basal way of communication in the first place. It is as well a book that bring in the theoretical roots and empirical access to narration together.
Department for Media and Educational Technology, University of Augsburg
November 6, 2012