Exploring Remakes in Hollywood
Let’s have a look at some examples of recent blockbuster films which echo the theories of mythic storytelling.
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Telling Stories with Style: The Tropes of Quentin Tarantino
The postmodern auteur not only quotes, borrows and steals from other influences but they are able to present them in …
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 …
The Work of Mike Leigh
He works tirelessly creating: drama, comedy, pathos, empathy, nihilism and hope through an orchestra of characters and creative endeavour.
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 …
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI: The Magic of a Knockout Script
A highly emotional human drama which contains some incredible characterization, dialogue and zinging one-liners which bounce off the page and …
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