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The film I have chosen to outline and discuss with regard to narrative construction is Taxi Driver (1976). However, before I can look further I shall need to briefly define 'narrative.' The Media Students Book defines narrative as "a complex term referring to a sequence of events organised into a story with a particular structure." Feature films, for example, are narratives as they tell a story using a structure. Although films may differ in the medium used and the representational conventions, they share structural similarities with tales and stories produced by other cultures. Turner (1996) writes that this suggests there is something universal in the structure, as well as in the function, of narrative. Propp, Todorov and Levi-Strauss have all discussed media narrative processes, working mostly with myths and folk tales. However the universality of narrative suggests that these studies may be applied to film as well, in this case...

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