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8. Story Reception

Definition of Reception: Reception describes how a story’s impact is changed due to personality of the audience

Communication or Collaboration?

  • Audience as author
  • Author as audience

When considering the Reception of your story, you should consider the following:

Who is your audience?

  • Writing for oneself
  • Writing for "the world"
  • Writing for a definable group
  • Is it symbolic or nonsense?

Reception and the Elements of Structure

Reception of Character

  • Stereotypes vs. Archetypes
  • Known actor
  • Typecasting
-- Video Clip: Typecasting: Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator.
  • Cross-typing

-- Video Clip: Cross-typing: Arnold Schwarzenegger in Junior.

 

Reception of Theme

  • Favored standards of evaluation
  • Cultural blind spots

-- Video Clip: Cultural blind spots: The Big Chill.

 

Reception of Plot

  • Favored archetypal plots
  • Newsworthy event - TV movies

-- Video Clip: Newsworthy event: Alive.

 

Reception of Genre

  • Genre: a mixed bag
  • Sociopolitical taboos

-- Video Clip: Sociopolitical taboos: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

 

Audience Expectations
  • "Generations"

-- Video Clip: Audience expectations: Star Trek Generations.

 

Multi-story Works
  • Substories
  • Subplots et al
-- Video Clip: Substories: Han Solo in Star Wars.
  • Parallel stories with collective impact
  • Parallel stories with independent impact

Audience Manipulation
  • A Time To Kill

-- Video Clip: Manipulation: A Time To Kill.

 

Propaganda

propaganda: to propagate an idea

-- Video Clip: The meaning of "Rosebud": Citizen Kane.
 
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