Up-and-coming YouTuber ‘quinn aitkenhead’, a film student who professes a reluctance to perpetuate stereotypes by exalting Citizen Kane (mission failed), has posted a wonderful look at the motivations behind some of cinema’s most famous remixed narratives. He begins by discussing
Explaining the Fabula and Syuzhet
Fabula and Syuzhet are a set of Russian terms where, as far as English-speakers are concerned, their Russian-twang handily outweighed their usefulness. Formalists Vladimir Propp and Viktor Shklovsky coined the terminology in the early 20th century, when very few forms