Stories may be lifelike, but not like life. After all they require a selectiveness about what to tell and what … More
Tag: storytelling
The long con
The success of the Conservatives in the UK’s general election could be seen as a triumph of spin, or its … More
The Fall, the visual and the verbal
Writers and filmmakers are mostly bound by a common love of storytelling, but watching The Fall as it reached the … More
Bonds, myths, and keeping it real
It says something about the respective self-images of our cultures that the American superhero archetype is a cross between a … More
Stories, cheating, ending
The US spy drama Homeland chugs on, probably losing viewers even as the story picks up, but you could say … More
