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E-book Stories
Storytelling was clearly of major importance in the development of cinema and television, as well as new forms of printed and graphic media, during the early twentieth century. But even if these media were new (or, more accurately, new inf lections of existing screen and print forms), storytelling is as old and universal as any sense of consciousness, according to the neuroscientist, Antonio Damasio. He further suggests that the “natural pre-verbal occurrence of storytelling” may be why drama and later written narratives emerged, “and why a good part of humanity is currently hooked on movie theatres and television screens” (Damasio 2000, 188). For Damasio, echoing what Hugo Münsterberg (1916) claimed just over a century ago, “movies are the closest external representation of the prevailing storytelling that goes on in our minds” (188).1 However, in trying to account for “the making of core consciousness,” his concern is less with the mind/cinema analogy than locating storytelling in an evolutionary sequence that starts with “mapping,” which “probably begins relatively early both in terms of evolution and in terms of the complexity of the neural structures required to create narratives” (189). He therefore concludes that “telling stories precedes language, since it is in fact a condition for language, and it is based not just in the cerebral cortex but elsewhere in the brain” (189).
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