Research 6/5

Second assessment is 2000 word literary review.

Primary sources - research, practitioners, examples. Specific sources that directly cover your topic. ie "World building thesis"
Secondary sources - broad/general source that touches on your topic, but not in depth like a primary source. ie "5 tips for world building"

Chose one of the following topics to focus on: (GAF = Game, Animation, Film)

• Environmental, historic and contemporary world builders in GAF
• Composition, Editing and Audio techniques and methodologies in GAF
• Character and Genre tropes in GAF
• Story Arc development and Narratology in GAF
• Understanding Genre Tropes and their manipulation in GAF
• Auteur Theory and the methodology in GAF
• Understanding Key Movements in GAF
• Game Mechanics and Immersive Storytelling in GAF

7 Primary and 7 secondary sources.

Story Arc Development and Narratology - The Heros Journey?

1 - The Stages of the Heros Journey   http://www.tlu.ee/~rajaleid/montaazh/Hero%27s%20Journey%20Arch.pdf

2 - Classical heroes in Modern movies. https://www.dpisd.org/cms/lib4/tx01001079/centricity/domain/921/classical_heroes_in_modern_movies.pdf

3 - Heroes of Middle Earth, J Campbells Monomyth in LOTR. https://jyx.jyu.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/7305/URN_NBN_fi_jyu-2007550.pdf

4 - the super heroines journey -comics, gender and monomyth. https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/34615381/Houman_Sadri_-_The_Super_Heroines_Journey_final.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1557113198&Signature=5Dl39lbKXGewfe0NKi7JmxELgWs%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DThe_Super-Heroines_Journey_Comics_Gender.pdf

5 - Campbell’s Monomyth in Single-Player Role-Playing Videogames Skyrim & Mass Effect. https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au//bitstream/2123/8902/1/The%20Rationalist%E2%80%99s%20Spirituality%20-%20Ehsan%20Knopf.pdf

6 - Subverting a Mythology Examining Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.co.nz/&httpsredir=1&article=1279&context=masters

7 - A Feminist redefinition of the monomyth - https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/4615/4027

8 - Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero https://search.proquest.com/docview/2130912558/bookReader?accountid=46872

9 - The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film https://ezproxy.sit.ac.nz:3061/docview/2132081127/bookReader?accountid=46872

10 - Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth https://search.proquest.com/docview/2130978041/bookReader?accountid=46872

11 - New Gods: Psyche and Symbol in popular Art https://search.proquest.com/docview/2132039862/bookReader?accountid=46872

12 - Heroines of Comic Books and Literature : Portrayals in Popular Culture https://search.proquest.com/docview/2135748716/bookReader?accountid=46872