Teaching Documents by Charles Forceville
“The art of Narration (Part V): Narration & Focalization.” [= link to YouTube film]
On YouTube, 2019
Fifth and final short (4’06”) animation film on story-telling, made by students at the Hogeschool... more Fifth and final short (4’06”) animation film on story-telling, made by students at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), after an idea developed by Charles Forceville.
The Art of Narration (Part IV): Actions & Events [= (link to) a short educational animation film]
On YouTube, 2018
This is part four of an envisaged five-part series of (very) short animation films on the art of ... more This is part four of an envisaged five-part series of (very) short animation films on the art of storytelling.
The Art of Narration (Part III): Time [= (link to) a short educational animation film]
On YouTube, 2017
Short (3’33”) educational animation film, made by students at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrec... more Short (3’33”) educational animation film, made by students at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), after an idea developed by Charles Forceville.
The Art of Narration (Part II): Places [= (link to) a short educational animation film]
On YouTube, 2016
This is the second of a series of five short pedagocical animation films on the art of storytelli... more This is the second of a series of five short pedagocical animation films on the art of storytelling. They have been made by students of the Hogeschool van de Kunsten, Utrecht (HKU) under my supervision. Please click to access the film.
Wie ziet de zin van de geesteswetenschappen in, als die niet in begrijpelijke taal zijn geschreve... more Wie ziet de zin van de geesteswetenschappen in, als die niet in begrijpelijke taal zijn geschreven? Het klakkeloos ‘toepassen’ van de vaagtaal van Beroemde Wetenschappers op strategisch gekozen voorbeelden is daarom uit den boze. Bij serieuze wetenschap hoort heldere taal.
Hollywood op Straat (Thomas Elsaesser & Pepita Hesselberth, red), 2000
The Art of Narration (Part I): About Characters and Characterization [= (link to) a short educational animation film]
On YouTube, 2015
The study of story-telling, narratology, is one of the most important disciplines in the humaniti... more The study of story-telling, narratology, is one of the most important disciplines in the humanities. This is the first of a series of short animation film projects explaining some of its key principles. The subject of this short is how "characters" are created. I am indebted to the scholarly work by Murray Smith and Mieke Bal.
LIFE IS A JOURNEY: an animated metaphor [= (link to) a short educational animation film]
In Metaphors We Live By (1980), George Lakoff and Mark Johnson introduced the idea that human bei... more In Metaphors We Live By (1980), George Lakoff and Mark Johnson introduced the idea that human beings think metaphorically. The basic idea is that we tend to systematically conceptualize abstract and complex things in terms of concrete ones -- that is, in terms of things we perceive and experience thanks to the way our bodies function. This idea is sometimes called "embodied cognition." One of our central conceptual metaphors presents goal-directed activity in terms of a journey toward a destination. Charles Forceville (co)wrote several academic papers on how this JOURNEY metaphor works (see http://muldisc.wordpress.com/).
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Teaching Documents by Charles Forceville