Genre Narrative Strategies

AY2021/2022 Semester 2

This course surveys and examines the various narrative strategies that are commonly used in drama television programmes and/or motion pictures, through screenings, lectures and readings. The concepts of narratology will be introduced for the purpose of analysing genres in television such as soap opera, sitcom, drama series, advertisement, and news and motion picture such as science fiction, film noir, horror, epic and documentary. Foreign as well as local programmes will be analysed and students are expected to create and present stories of their own.