Storytelling as resistance: The affective role of style in remediated stories

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2018-04-28
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Transmedia storytelling is having a momentum in our present cultural climate; the ruling mediums of storytelling —in this case, literature and cinema— seem to be more related to each other than ever before. At the same time, the swiftly evolving interconnections of the globalized world demand a con- stant analysis of the nature of the new liaisons and relationships that have emerged from it. Such para- norama raises several questions in regard of the social dimension of storytelling and storytellers, and of the position of the creative act for contemporary authors and audiences. This research analyses the ctionalized documentary Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story, that follows israeli author Etgar Keret and his short stories. This hybrid documentary by dutch lmmakers Stephen Kaas and Rutger Lemm o ers a fruitful terrain of exploration of the act of storytelling through a cinematic language that appropiately remediates Keret’s stories, and that creates a mediation of feeling that acts as the emotional bridge between the stories and the viewer. The focus of this research is to determinate the a ective qualities that enable the remediation of stories and that perpetuate the success of a literary piece, regardless of gender or race and nation speci city. The focus on a ect will be sustained by Gille’s Deleuze philoso- phy, particularly through his notions of style, territorialisations, micropolitics, and constant becomings. The act of storytelling will be rst revised through the lenses of Arthur W. Frank’s socio-narratology, in order to establish the main a ective capacities of stories, and cinema will be revised as an a ective machine, with a focus of the notions of perception and of the act of viewing as an experience.
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