Abandoning Tired Tropes and Seeing With New Eyes

Abandoning Tired Tropes and Seeing With New Eyes

Storytelling tropes, conventional devices used for plot development and to move the action forward in a drama, are not unique to contemporary society. Tropes in film often prevent audiences from seeing humans as we really are—people made in the moral and rational...
“We Are in An Imagination Battle”

“We Are in An Imagination Battle”

I have looked away, averted my gaze, and stuffed lined paper in my mouth. I have picked up my mechanical pencil and put it down. I am unsure of the words that want to come out or even if I have the will to say them. Frankly, I’m all talked out. What needs to be said...