Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 14 minutes ago

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In this video we look at the structuralist work of Vladimir Propp, whose work in the morphology of the folktale outlines either character archetypes that can still be identified in modern film and TV narrative structures.
00:00 Intro
01:22 Vladimir Propp
02:03 The Hero
02:40 The Villain
03:14 The Donor
03:38 The Dispatcher
04:07 The Helper
04:37 The False Hero
04:56 The Princess
05:19 The Princess' Father
05:31 Applying Propp
08:45 Outro
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