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Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know

Jennifer Van Sijll

Studio City, Calif.: Michael Wiese Productions (2005), xii, 257 pp.

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Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism

Sam Gregory, Gillian Caldwell, Ronit Avni, Thomas Harding (eds.)

Peter Gabriel (foreword)

London: Pluto Press;Witness (2005), 323 pp.

"This book is an invitation—an invitation to discover the potential of a simple video camera and the power it holds to spark social change. Every day, all around the world, activists draw upon video in creative, strategic ways and use the results to ensure that silent voices are heard and importan ... more

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Storytelling: Branding in Practice

Klaus Fog, Christian Budtz, Baris Yakaboylu

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2005), 238 pp.

"As a concept, storytelling has won a decisive foothold in the debate on how brands of the future will be shaped. Yet, there is still a conspicuous lack of critical insight as to how and why storytelling can make a difference. For most companies, storytelling remains an abstract concept, at best res ... more

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Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
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Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh (ed.)

Accra: Ghana Universities Press (2005), xvi, 282 pp.

"This book argues that indigenous modes of communication - for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio - are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of co ... more

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Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für Nonprofit-Organisationen

Gemeinschaftswerk der Evangelischen Publizistik (GEP) (ed.)

Wiesbaden: Gabler (2004), xii, 1233 pp.

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Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management

John Seely Brown, Stephen Denning, Katalina Groh

Burlington, MA; Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann (2004), xiii, 192 pp.

"This book tells how four busy executives, each coming from a different background, each with a very different perspective, were surprised to find themselves converge on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the 21st century. It ref ... more

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Tales for Change: Using Storytelling to Develop People and Organizations
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Margaret Parkin

London; Sterling, VA: Kogan Page (2004), vii, 165 pp.

"This book contains 50 stories, all of which have been specifically chosen to help you deal with the difficult and complex process of change. Some of the stories have been lent by other authors, some are my own creation, some were developed by participants during storytelling workshops and some have ... more

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Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children

Jack Zipes

New York; London: Routledge (2004), 219 pp.

"In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force with ... more

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Character Development and Storytelling for Games

Lee Sheldon

Boston: Course Technology Crisp (2004), xiv, 488 pp.

"[This book] is meant to be a resource for writers and designers and those who must work with us and who may want to talk intelligently with us at some point. This is not a book of rules that, if slavishly followed, will guarantee success. You’ll see that just about every time I try to lay down so ... more

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Storytelling in Film and Television

Kristin Thompson

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2003), xiii, 172 pp.

"Popular films and television series tell stories in an entertaining, easily comprehensible fashion. They seem simple, yet often the audience must keep track of several characters, multiple plot lines, motifs, and thematic meanings. Television viewers often face the additional challenge of frequent ... interruptions—for commercials, for week-long gaps between episodes, and even for stretches of time between seasons. Yet they manage, remarkably, to keep track of not only a single long-running narrative, but often several simultaneously. How do film and television writers juggle the need for graspable, enjoyable stories with the many restrictions imposed by their respective commercial formats? How do those two art forms differ in the ways they tell stories? [...] Because television programs typically face far greater restrictions of time and format than films, the storytelling tactics of television often appear extremely simple, especially in situation comedies and dramas with only one or two plotlines. Since the 1980s, dramas with multiple storylines have been praised as introducing complexity into narrative television. I shall argue, however, that good situation comedies and “simple” dramas often in fact also have an underlying complexity. Indeed, many of the interesting aspects of storytelling are hidden in television in a way that they are not in most other arts. We watch television via single episodes, and those episodes may be unremarkable. Yet television is structured in ways that become apparent only if we take the long view. Multiple-episode programs structure narratives within episodes, across seasons, and across a potentially lengthy succession of seasons. To some extent, both classical films and television programs hide their own cleverness in a show of simplicity. In television particularly, the complexity fades into the tenuous connections across a series. Similarly, the virtues of the individual episode— compact exposition, swift progression from cause to effect, establishment of material for future entries in the series—make little impression unless one pays keen attention or undertakes actual analysis, either of the episode or across the season. My first chapter tackles the issue of how one might do that sort of close narrative analysis within episodes ..." (Preface, page ix-x) more

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Kinder und ihr Symbolverständnis: Theorien, Geschichten, Bilder

Hans Dieter Erlinger (ed.)

München: kopaed (2001), 156 pp.

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Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. Vol. 3: Por-Zoo

Jorge Reina Schement (ed.)

New York et al.: Macmillan Reference, Gale Group (2001), pp. 715-1161

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In Bildern reden: Die neue Redekunst aus Ditkos Schule

Peter H. Ditko, Norbert Q. Engelen

Düsseldorf: Econ, 3d ed. (1999), 288 pp.

Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects Inspiring Practice

Tales for Change: Using Storytelling to Develop People and Organizations Key Guidance

Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
Inspiring Practice

Tales for Change: Using Storytelling to Develop People and Organizations
Key Guidance