Key concepts - Narrative

Narrative = the way events are put together to be presented to the audience.

Todorov argues that narratives always have a structure of equilibrium /disequilibrium

Strauss argues that human cultural understanding is based upon a system of binary opposites (eg black/white, god/bad). Due to this some argue that binary opposition forms a fundamental way of understanding narrative.

In Media Studies, it is important to tell the difference between narrative and story