I will drop you a line. My antipathy towards the subject is that I have analytics people telling me what to design and some of them think they are the "center of infinity."

In regards to topic or plot extraction I would start with "The Seven Basic Plots - Why We Tell Stories" by Christopher Booker:

The Guardian review: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/nov/21/fiction.feature... )

and then break down which plots in both literature and film are "fashionable" or why they work.. We are off topic now, I will take this of line