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Journey, Feast, Duel: 'Standard-Situations' in the Harry Potter Movies
Program Code:
360
Date:
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Time:
9:00 AM to 9:50 AM
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Vera Cuntz was born on 29th of April 1979 in Darmstadt, Germany. After finishing high school in 1998, she started studying film and theatre science in Marburg, Mainz and Vienna. She recently graduated from university achieving the M.A. degree. Her master thesis was about "Standard situations in the Alien series". Her future plans include writing a dissertation – hopefully about a topic related to Harry Potter. In her spare time she works as a DJ and writes Harry Potter fan fictions.
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Description
The term standard situation was borrowed from the vocabulary of team sports like soccer where it refers to recurring game situations. In film studies the term is used to classify and analyze the cinematic narrative construction by means of rhetoric figures and recurring structures. Each of Harry's school years is structured by the same standard situations that are brought up in varied forms in every movie, for example the journey back to Hogwarts and the reunion with Harry's fellow students, the meeting with the new teacher for DADA, a Quidditch tournament and so on. Three exemplary standard situations, that through their dramatic position have a structuring function within the movie, will be given particular attention: Journey, duel and feast. The journey and the final duel form a bracket, in which the plot is developed. The feast serves as representation of the wizarding world in general and the school in particular.