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> 1. non-story driven short films
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> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:15:20 -0400
> From: Mike Frank <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: non-story driven short films
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> hesitated about offering this suggestion but perhaps
> it's worth a stab, though it may be far far from what
> the original question was after
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> if "story" is understood as a series of incidents arranged
> according to some logic or pattern then it might be
> argued that many "standard" hollywood cartoons of
> mid-century are not story driven to the extent that the
> incidents are merely cumulative rather then telic
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> in most [not all] bugs bunny or road runner or tom
> and jerry cartoons the selection of incidents and
> their arrangement is almost random . . . they could
> be rearranged in any order, an episode from one
> could be removed and dropped into another, and
> the situation at then end is essentially identical to that
> at the beginning, thereby subtly subverting the notion
> that in the arc of a "story" some state of affairs changes
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> obviously these cartoons share with dominant cinema
> a depiction of characters engaged in actions and shaped
> into incidents--and if that counts as story these won't work
What you're describing is a sequence-based narrative structure, which
is different from a story-based structure. PANIC ROOM is an example of
sequencing; AU HASARD BALTHASAR is an example of storytelling.
Robert Koehler
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