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Abandoning Tired Tropes and Seeing With New Eyes

Abandoning Tired Tropes and Seeing With New Eyes

by Donald E. Williams | Oct 8, 2025 | Opinion

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...

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