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Loose ends and the hope of things to come

Stories may be lifelike, but not like life. After all they require a selectiveness about what to tell and what … More

Charles Dickens, David Lynch, Fiction, Great Expectations, Hans Rosenfeldt, Happy endings, Marcella, Narrative, Seven basic plots, storytelling, Twin Peaks

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

anti-intellectualism, Bill Clinton, Colonel Blimp, communication, David Cameron, economic competence, Ed Milliband, electoral reform, Englishness, Labour failure, political narrative, progressive politics, soundbites, spin, storytelling, Tony Blair, UK election

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

director/writers, Lars von Trier, narratives, scriptwriting, storytelling, The Fall, writer/directors

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

Breaking Bad, Ian Fleming, James Bond, McGuffins, myths, Skyfall, storytelling

Stories, cheating, ending

The US spy drama Homeland chugs on, probably losing viewers even as the story picks up, but you could say … More

Antony and Cleopatra, Aristotle, Homeland, Lost, plots, Saving Private Ryan, storytelling, The Returned, The Sopranos

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