Tim O'Sullivan et al (1998)
Argues that all media text tells us the same kind of story. Through careful mediation, media texts offer a way of telling stories about ourselves not usually, our own personal stories, but the story of us a culture of set cultures.
Narrative theory sets out to show that what we experience when we 'read' a story it is to understand particular set of conventions and that is important to be aware of how these constructions are put together.
Kate Domaille (2001)
Said that every story ever told can be fitted into one of eight narrative types. Each of these narrative types has a source, on original story upon which others are.
Achilles: The fatal flow that leads to the destruction of the previously flawless, or almost flawless, person e.g superman, Fatal Attraction.
Candide: The indomitable hero who cannot be put down e.g Indiana Jones, James Bond, Harry Potter, Rock etc.
Cinderella: The dreams come true e.g Pretty Woman, any Disney film ever created in the existence of disney.
Curce: The chase, the spider and the fly, The innocent and the victim, e.g smokey and the bandit, The Termintor.
Faust: Selling your soul to the devil may bring rich but even your soul belongs to him
Orpheis: The loss of something personal, the gift that is taken away, the tragedy of loss or the journey which follows the loss e.g The sixth sense, love story, Born on the fourth of july.
Romeo and Juliet: The love story e.g Titanic.
Tristant and Iseuit: The love triangle, Man loves women unfortunately one or both of them are already spoken for, or a third party interferes e.g Casablanca.
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