Session Information
HPEF - Prophecy 2007 Conference
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Journey, Feast, Duel: 'Standard-Situations' in the Harry Potter Movies
Track : August 4, 2007
Program Code: 360
Date: Saturday, August 4, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM to 9:50 AM  EST
Location: Lower Concourse Sheraton Hall E
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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.