Dramatica has a very different way of looking at the concept of Genre. In the world of this theory, the genre of a story can fall into four different areas: Entertainment, Comedy, Drama and Information. This does not mean there are only four different kinds of stories. Rather, these four items can be interchanged among the throughlines and shift throughout a narrative piece.
Entries Tagged with 'genre'
Notting Hill: Using Genre to Identify Throughlines
March 15th, 2007 · No Comments
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the purpose of a story
November 3rd, 2005 · No Comments
If Characters are the Motivations of a story, and Plot the Methodologies of a story, and Theme the Means of Evaluating a story, then how is Genre the Purpose of a story?
I asked this question of Chris Huntley, one of the co-creators of the theory of Dramatica, yesterday. How can Action/Adventure or Romantic Comedy be [...]
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