Lesson: Roland Barthes - Narrative Codes
Narrative Types:
- Open: (Lots of different meanings)
- Closed: (Only one obvious meaning)
Codes:
- Action Code
- any action that implies a further narrative acion. (when a gun is drawn you know there is going to be a gun fight).
- Enigma Code
- Any element in a story that is not explained and therefore, exists as an enigma for the audience, raising questions that demand explication.
- Semantic Code
- any element in a text that suggests a particular, often additional meaning by way of connotation (signs/signifiers)
- Cultural Code
- any element in a narrative that refers 'to a science or a body of knowledge'. In other words, the cultural codes tend to point to our shared knowledge about the way the world works.
- Symbolic Code
- Claude Levi-Strauss - binary opposites, the contrast between two opposites, the grey are between two complete opposites.
Ryan. Try to work on your explanations.
ReplyDeleteWith regards the symbolic you could think of a rich businessman stood smoking a cigar next to a poor starving child. We'd think how and why has this happened?
Similarly if you think back to the Eisenstein montage with the bongs and bings played whilst religious iconography is displayed in the background we inferred a symbolic meaning that religion was bad.