I want to analyze the characters of the Hindi language feature film, No One Killed Jessica, and by characters I mean all the characters in the film, irrespective of gender. So, I want to know if there is any sort of criteria or any rules to follow while analyzing a character? How to go about it? Like, what should be the first step for analyzing? Do I have to measure the character against something?
Please help.
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As Michael Uebel has said, it depends on what you're interested in, but I'm fond of Noël Carroll's virtue wheel as an analytic tool:Article The Wheel of Virtue: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge
As other colleagues suggested, everything depends on what you want to know. But from my sociology perspective, I would consider two paths:
- The characters as a content you want to analize. Thus, it is applying regular content analysis techniques which will give you a general and global view of the characters".
- Secondly, I would rather think to analyze the characters itselves as a creation coming from the director/productor/etc...From this perspective, the characters are viewed as discourse positions designed from other actors (you could also consider to open the analysis to these other actors to establish their role and interests on the creation of characters). I hope that is helpful and the best of luck with your research.
Rafe McGregor Thank you so much for the suggestion, Sir. Shall definitely read it up.
Isabel Palomares-Linares Dear Ma'am, thanks a ton for explaining this so beautifully.
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