Beschrijving
Narrative and Genre introduces students to two key concepts in Media Studies, complementingImage and Representation published in 1998. The book covers the major narrative theorists and is illustrated with numerous case studies includingThe X-Files, Wuthering Heights, Se7en, and newspaper reporting. A brief history of narrative in literature surveys text fromThe Epic of Gilgamesh to Paul Auster’s postmodern Ghost. The section on genre offers exhaustive case studies onfilm noir and the ”hard-boiled” detective novel, the TV cop genre, and soap opera.
