December 2009
10 posts
Re: Filmmaking and Tourism are NOT related
More on this issue:
Cinema should claim as a story-space one of the following:
1. The Nowhere (a.k.a. the Here-sucks, the No-one-wants-to-be-here)
2. The Non-place (a complete fantasy land, grasped only through analogy, metaphor, and allegory)
3. The This-is-not-where-you-think-it-is (where reality is imaginary, and the outcome of this discovery forms the basis for a new world within, overtop,...
“Because a man can have more disease and germination in his gob than you’ll...”
– Policeman MacCruiskeen in The Third Policeman by Myles na gCopaleen
“It was amazing without being pleasant or very interesting, and after a while it...”
– L.J. Davis, in A Meaningful Life
Propp Vs. Polti?
Last week there was a post summarizing Vladimir Propp’s Topology of Narrative Structures - an academic work from the Russian Formalist school that categorizes (extensively) what he argues as all the different shifts in a plot that a story can take. He derived this from fables, or more precisely, fairy tales.
This whole field of story “mapping” is called narratology and its...
Filmmaking and Tourism are NOT related.
Hitchcock made Mount Rushmore all the more famous. But no one wants to suddenly get up from their seat and visit the place after seeing North by Northwest.