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Dramatica Weekend Workshop Syllabus 9 STORY RECEPTION Definition of Reception:Reception describes how a story’s impact is changed due to personality of the audience Communication or Collaboration* Audience as author Author as audience
Who is your audience* Writing for oneself Writing for “the world” Writing for a definable group
Modern Groups as Disposable Tribes What binds a group* The “captive” audience Is it symbolic or nonsense*
Cultural specificity Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story Cyrano de Bergerac/Roxanne
Demographics The ethnic audience Political Correctness Ethnicentricity Ethnic portability Age groups Children’s stories Men’s and Women’s stories Mental Sex, Limit, and “Positioning” Sub-cultures
Author’s Intent
Reception of Character Stereotypes vs. Archetypes Known actor Typecasting
Cross-typing
Reception of Theme Favored standards of evaluation Cultural blind spots
Reception of Plot Favored archetypal plots Newsworthy event - TV movies
Reception of Genre Genre: a mixed bag Sociopolitical taboos
Audience Expectations “Generations”
Multi-story Works Substories Subplots et al
Parallel stories with collective impact Parallel stories with independent impact
Propaganda Thelma & Louise
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