Everybody has their own story. All people knew it. But what makes a story more interesting than the other stories is because its covey values that we expect to enrich our lives. Story is a kind of imaginary world that we shape with language for living in human interactions. Sometimes, it has powerful narrations that persuade people to conduct in a certain kind of direction. Therefore, story is an essential element of human culture.
Maybe, someone tends to define story as the objective dimension of human experience. It is accurate as far as the story is shared human experiences. Our natural conditions necessarily need a story to identify and construct ourselves for living with others. So, as Max Weber famously put it, “man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun,” the story is a form of significance. In other words, what made the story possible is the meaning of life itself. And it is transferred from one person to another and transmitted across generations through collective memory and historical accounts.
From such abstraction, we need to pin it down to conceive a better understanding. I would begin with my last weekend's story about modern popular culture called cinema. In my developing countries, cinema movies are popular entertainment that attracts most middle-class people. They enthusiastically follow the film story as a sign to be modern. It is also the way to appropriate modern cultures. For this reason, the cinema theatre is the main site of reproducing modern imaginations and disseminating its values through fascinating narrations. When I was there, I attempt to reflect on the position and mechanism of the movie within modern cultures.
From the consumer perspective, the cinema theatre service is clearly making people comfortable. The room is full AC, and the movie theatre is a good effects setting. But this service must be paid with the amount of money that not everybody is able to afford it. The cost of one cinema ticket is $5. This amount is the average daily living cost in my city. This year, my city’s minimum standard wage is around $ 150 a month. When we divide it by 30 (day), the labour class just take $ 5 per day. So, the labour class hardly prefers to watch a movie in the cinema theatre and tends to spend their money on more affordable or costless entertainment.
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Crafting Stories in Modern Times
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Everybody has their own story. All people knew it. But what makes a story more interesting than the other stories is because its covey values that we expect to enrich our lives. Story is a kind of imaginary world that we shape with language for living in human interactions. Sometimes, it has powerful narrations that persuade people to conduct in a certain kind of direction. Therefore, story is an essential element of human culture.
Maybe, someone tends to define story as the objective dimension of human experience. It is accurate as far as the story is shared human experiences. Our natural conditions necessarily need a story to identify and construct ourselves for living with others. So, as Max Weber famously put it, “man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun,” the story is a form of significance. In other words, what made the story possible is the meaning of life itself. And it is transferred from one person to another and transmitted across generations through collective memory and historical accounts.
From such abstraction, we need to pin it down to conceive a better understanding. I would begin with my last weekend's story about modern popular culture called cinema. In my developing countries, cinema movies are popular entertainment that attracts most middle-class people. They enthusiastically follow the film story as a sign to be modern. It is also the way to appropriate modern cultures. For this reason, the cinema theatre is the main site of reproducing modern imaginations and disseminating its values through fascinating narrations. When I was there, I attempt to reflect on the position and mechanism of the movie within modern cultures.
From the consumer perspective, the cinema theatre service is clearly making people comfortable. The room is full AC, and the movie theatre is a good effects setting. But this service must be paid with the amount of money that not everybody is able to afford it. The cost of one cinema ticket is $5. This amount is the average daily living cost in my city. This year, my city’s minimum standard wage is around $ 150 a month. When we divide it by 30 (day), the labour class just take $ 5 per day. So, the labour class hardly prefers to watch a movie in the cinema theatre and tends to spend their money on more affordable or costless entertainment.
What makes this popu...
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