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Paul Laight

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Narrative
Cinema’s Most Unreliable Narrators
Posted On September 25, 2018 Paul Laight 6 min read

**CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS**   Getting a complex layered and non-linear storyline right is difficult. Many writers and filmmakers experiment with variant structures …
Auteurs Editor's Picks
Telling Stories with Style: The Tropes of Quentin Tarantino
Posted On September 11, 2018 Paul Laight 8 min read

Quentin Tarantino is a powerhouse of cinema. He has proved consistently since his debut film Reservoir Dogs (1992) right up …
Film Language Narrative
Meta-Textual Storytelling in Cinema
Posted On July 10, 2018 Paul Laight 7 min read

SPOILERS AHEAD! With the multitude of means of telling stories from video-games, literature, television, plays, songs, poems and of course, cinema, …
Narrative Editor's Picks
Contrasting Dreams on Page and Screen: Reviewing the Work of Philip K. Dick
Posted On May 14, 2018 Paul Laight

For a writer who wrote extensively about artificial intelligence and technology, Philip K. Dick himself was, in fact, a veritable …
Narrative Editor's Picks
Familiarity and Nostalgia in the Fantasy Genre
Posted On March 1, 2018 Paul Laight 7 min read

Once upon a Time. . . four simple words which immediately conjure a whole host of possibilities and eventualities in …
Ones To Watch
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI: The Magic of a Knockout Script
Posted On March 1, 2018 Paul Laight 3 min read

A highly emotional human drama which contains some incredible characterization, dialogue and zinging one-liners which bounce off the page and …
Narrative Editor's Picks
Exploring Unofficial Remakes in Hollywood
Posted On February 21, 2018 Paul Laight 7 min read

The blockbuster or big-budget spectacle has been a major business tool of Hollywood production since movies began. In his book …
Articles Ones To Watch
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99: Twisting conventions in the prison genre
Posted On October 13, 2017 Paul Laight 3 min read

The concept of Katabasis is a descent of some kind, such as moving downhill, or a military retreat, or in …