The (Film) Hero with a Thousand Faces
There’s one thing that, without it, mankind wouldn’t have been able to thrive as a species, hunt as a group, …
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Exploring Remakes in Hollywood
Let’s have a look at some examples of recent blockbuster films which echo the theories of mythic storytelling.
Top 5 Unsung Cult Classics
It can be hard to definitively assess what makes a film stand the test of time. One might assume that …
The Stephen King Effect: Iconic Adaptations for the Silver Screen
With both Pet Semetary and IT: Chapter 2 coming out this year, we're taking a look back at the source material …
Cinema’s Most Unreliable Narrators
**CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS** Getting a complex layered and non-linear storyline right is difficult. Many writers and filmmakers experiment with variant structures …
Meta-Textual Storytelling in Cinema
SPOILERS AHEAD! With the multitude of means of telling stories from video-games, literature, television, plays, songs, poems and of course, cinema, …
Contrasting Dreams on Page and Screen: Reviewing the Work of Philip K. Dick
For a writer who wrote extensively about artificial intelligence and technology, Philip K. Dick himself was, in fact, a veritable …
Familiarity and Nostalgia in the Fantasy Genre
Once upon a Time. . . four simple words which immediately conjure a whole host of possibilities and eventualities in …
