Course Syllabus

 

• Course Title: ENG7000 Themes in Narrative Frameworks media storytelling
• Instructor: Demagio Mansell
• Email: dmansell03@knights.ucf.edu
• Office: Zoom; Wednesday 12:00 – 3:00 PM

Course Description

 

A Narrative framework is a structure that holds parts of the story together over larger or main structures to listeners, viewers, or readers. In narrative frameworks such as television, and movies you will see themes or patterns implemented into these frameworks that shape the overall narrative. De Kosnik talks about digital remix culture which allows us to interact with original source content which in return we become archontic producers. This course is to encourage students to become producers of knowledge by further examining media works by interpreting themes or concepts implemented into the framework. This course will be incorporating the elements of narrative framework with the web-based tools to further understand how themes can be implemented into structures of television and film. The assignments of the course will further explore breaking down the foundations of narrative storytelling found in television and film through the use of web-based tools. 

• Weekly Readings and Discussions. The readings will be based on the corresponding lessons assigned weekly. 
• Weekly Exercises. The weekly exercise will explore different themes implemented in frames within television and film. This will encourage students to further explore workings and understand the structures they are built upon. 
• Final Reflection Paper. The final reflection paper will be a reflection of the student has learned during the course of the aspects and themes that are integrated into the framework of television and films. 

Course Objectives 

• Explore and examine the themes implemented in media frameworks. 
• Identify the issues with current themes implemented in media frameworks. 
• Students to become familiar with web-based tools such as Scalar, Wix, TimelineJS and Twine. 

Material and Texts 

Gray, J. (2010). Show sold separately: Promos, spoilers, and other media paratexts. New York University Press.

Hutcheon, L. (2007). The politics of Postmodernism. Routledge.

Johnson, D. (2013). Media Franchising: Creative License and collaboration in the culture industrie. New York University Press.

Kosnik, D. A. (2016). Archontic Production. In Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom. The MIT Press.

McSweeney, T. (2016). The “War on Terror’ and American film: 9/11 frames per Second. Edinburgh University Press.

Mulvey, L. (1991). Visual pleasure and narrative cinema. Feminisms, 432–442. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22098-4_25