L'AVVENTURA

Original New York Times Review. April 5, 1961

SCREENWRITER JOSE RIVERA

SCREENWRITER NICK KAZAN

NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS IN MYTH: THE CAVE OF THE MAGIC RING

Wendy Doniger is a Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and one of the most important interpreters of myth. In this Fourth Annual Ninian Smart Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Barbara she explores the narrative convention in myth.

Note: For students of film, this is a wonderful lecture about the limiting and liberating dimension of the conventions of narrative and it's relation to myth, stories that speak directly to and about eternal human realities. - José Angel Santana, Ph.D.

WHAT IF NARRATIVE STRUCTURE BROKE?

from Luke Houghton's Problem Solving Blog:

"I was wondering what would happen if the narrative structure Hollywood loves decided to not work any more. What do I mean? Well consider this: If the narrative, which has penetrated us like a prison inmate, was no longer working what would they do? Ahh, Fight Club I hear you say… that didn’t have a narrative structure did it? No, it didn’t? Of course it did. It was just shown out of sequence. That’s a non-linear narrative. I am talking about things like the start-middle-finish formula that scores so well at the box office. What kind of movies would be made if there was no narrative. Bad ones?" (READ MORE)

MIT NON-LINEAR NARRATIVE PROJECT

A non-linear narrativeVideo Project, by Bryan A Haddon (Soundtrack by Easy Star All-Stars, presented courtesy of Easy Star Records. Used with permission.)

from MIT OpenCourseWare Project:

"The contemporary understanding of communication and narrative is quickly shifting in a world where media is ubiquitous. This course explores the properties of non-linear, multi-linear, and interactive forms of narratives as they have evolved from print to digital media. The "language of new media" is the thematic used in this course to discuss contemporary and historic forms of non-linear narrative. Writers on communication culture, gaming, television, digital aesthetics, contemporary art and film, as well as synchronic narrative will be addressed."

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Non-Linear Video Narrative, by Dany Qumsiyeh