Tuesday, 24 September 2013
The Beginning of my Horror Journey
So over the past two weeks I have been closely anaylsing the great work of Vladimir Propp who was a Russian formalist scholar who created a theory that in every story there is eight character types:
-The hero
-The Villian
-The donor
-The dispatcher
-The false hero
-The helper
-The princess
-Her father
After closely analysing this theory I have come to the conclusion that this theory is even applicable to the horror film genre. What makes this theory so effcetive is that it treats the characters as functions who's roles are to make the narrative what it is.
I will be posting a powerpoint showing the connection between this theory and the film 'Silent Hill'.
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