Class Notes
Coraline
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Loses track of where one is
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Henry Selick (Tim Burton Producing)
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Staged
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Not a very natural flowing dialogue
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Hint of Gaiman in the dialogue
Anansi Boys and
Gaiman Video
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Takes mythology and weaving a contemporary story
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Mythic story bones
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African mythology
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Central assumption of the work differs from most
novels, he assumes all the characters in the work are black unless otherwise
described
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What is Genre?
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A sense of assumptions between a creator and its
audience
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Book shelf
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Places not to look that is the simplicity of
book shelving, telling you what nto to read
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Sturgeon’s law is a law that said 90 percent of
fiction is crap but then 90 percent of everything is crap
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Genre- is not subject matter
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The story is within the genre as long as it
doesn’t leave the reader feeling cheated at the end
American Gods
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Detective spun out to a mythic tale with
Scandinavian mythology mostly
Mirror Mask
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Unsettling
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Dream world
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Valentine
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Mirror world/ masks/ through the looking glass
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Things aren’t explained until later
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Different narrative
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