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Society and storytelling are intrinsically intertwined. Basically, what is storytelling but a way of conveying a complete thought? If you look at a story as anything that has a beginning and end with some sort of change, then a story can be something as simple as "I went to the store and bought bread." At the beginning, I hadn't been to the store and I didn't have bread. At the end, I had been to the store and had purchased bread. Beginning, ending, change.
That said, talking about these 'changes' is a way of informing each other about needed information. Hence society and story are inherently and necessarily connected to each other. If we look at different types of storytelling, they can even define a society in which ethey belong.
But does society define the storytelling? Or can it be either way?
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posted by Erik Crosier @ 12:35 AM
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If society and culture doesn't define storytelling then what does?
We are heavily effected by our environment and thus our creations. Probably more than we know. I think that's why at the time if inception of the DS program there was a heavy importance on the Cultural Immersion.
I think I agree with Luke on this one. It could be argued that everything involved with storytelling, right down to word meanings or language itself, is defined by culture. As a whole we accept that "apple," means what it means. In that same light society accepts what narratives are acceptable and influences the discipline of storytelling.
For example, perhaps the significantly smaller number of non-linear films suggests that society hasn't completely accepted non-linear storytelling as an archetype.
I think it is a circular way of influence. Culture defines what "apple" is and what kind of stories/narratives are accepted but on the other hand story/narrative shapes culture as well...at least they enforce a cultural change...
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