Moral Panic

Moral panic is a feeling of fear to a large number of people. In the dictionary it defines it as 'the process of arousing social concern over an issue'. In Bowling for Columbine this is when the news talk about the incident when people took over the school and kept some people hostage after killing some students and teachers. 

Mean World Syndrome

Mean World Syndrome was founded  George Gerbner that describes violence content shown by the mass media that shows the audience that the world is more dangerous than it is. This happens every time something horrific happens in the world. The news just constantly show the story and nothing else and that happened for Bowling for Columbine.

Narrative theories

Roland Barthes

Key Facts

uRoland Barthes was born on 12th November in 1915 and died on 25th March 1980.
uHe was a French theorist, philosopher and critic.uHis theory breaks down to 5 codes.  

Codes Theory

A piece of text has a number of different meanings. Once we know what the text means we can start to find out a number of different meanings. We start by looking at the narrative of one point of view and then we can create one meaning for the text we have read. You can then start looking at the text from a different point of view and create a whole different meaning. 

Hermeneutic Code

This is when the story does not tell the truth and does not tell the facts to drop clues to create a mystery. The example I am using for this is going to be Fight Club because throughout the movie we think 

Enigma Act

This is when tension builds up in the story and leaves the audience to guess what happens next. 

Vladimir Propp

Vladimir was born on 17th April 1895 and he died on 22nd August 1970 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He wrote five books altogether and also published four articles. The books he wrote were.

• Morphology of the tale, Leningrad 1928

• Historical Roots of the wonder tale , Leningrad 1946

• Russian Epic Song , Leningrad 1955 - 1958

• Popular Lyric Songs , Leningrad 1961

• Russian Agrarian Feasts, Leningrad 1963. 

The articles he wrote were 

• The Magical Tree on the tomb
• Wonderful Childbirth
• Ritual Laughter in folklore
• Oedipus in the light of folklore.

Vladimir Propp was a scholar who found out that a certain type of character was used in every type of story. 

The characters he thought that were in every type of story were the villain who fights the hero, the dispatcher who sends the hero off to save the world from the villain, the helper who can be magical who helps the hero in his adventure to save the world, the princess or prize which the hero gets to marry or have after he saves the world,