CS - Vladimir propp

Propp was born in 1895 to a german family, he attended st petersburg university and majored in german and russian philology, and eventually became a college teacher of german.

Propp broke up fairytales into sections, through these sections he was able to define the tale into a series of sequences that occured within the russian fairytale, usually there is an initial situation, after which the tale usually takes the following 31 functions, Propp used this method to decipher russian folklore and fairytales first of all there appears to be at least two distinct types of structural analysis in folklore, one is the type of which propp's morphology is the exemplar par excellence, in this type, the formal organisation of a folkloristic text is described following the chronological order of the linear sequence of elements in the text as reported from an informant. thus if a tale consists of elements A-Z the structure of the tale is delineated in terms of this same sequence.

CS - story worlds

Gladiator - i feel that the reason this world works so well is due to its believable nature, as we now know ancient rome was as barbaric and unforgiving as the film portrays, so its quite fair to assume that something like this could have happened,using real life characters like julias caesar helps add to the immersion.

Sleepy Hollow - Although at first glance this seems like a very typical european gothic world, upon watching you will noticed tim burton manages to create his own unique style once again but still retaining the very fairytale like atmosphere you expect from a story about the headless horseman.

what i feel makes this world so unique is burtons twist on the fairytale cliche's, he manages to keep the story very much predictabel but throws a twist in which seemingly goes against the world as a whole, combined with very stereotypical narrative for the age in when the film is set.