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Running on the Cracks – review
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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You couldn't fault this adaptation of Julia Donaldson 's novel for being short of themes. In 90 minutes, it ticks off bereavement, child abuse, missing people, drug addiction, mental illness, multiculturalism and the search for identity. Throw in a
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What It Do: Narrative Rules
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 4 months ago
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For those who don't make it a habit to pay attention to such things, Manti Te'o, a promising young football player, apparently createdin collusion with a frienda fictional girlfriend, giving her a fictional death, which was then crafted by a
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Only the awesome power of the voice over can save a stranded astronaut in this metafictional short film
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Voice Over opens with an astronaut who has crash-landed on a distant planet and needs to reach his capsule before he runs out of air...The mighty voice over, which narrates the astronaut's story as well as those of two other potentially doomed souls.
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?I?m a Jack-in-the-box?
Mumbai :: India | 5 months ago
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Writer, poet and playwright Randhir Khare talks to Bishwanath Ghosh about the experience of being a chameleon, moving from genre to genre. Randhir Khare has stood outside arty jamborees and literary movements, and found for himself a space truly his
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Children's Books: ‘A Game for Swallows,' by Zeina Abirached
Beirut :: Lebanon | 6 months ago
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From A Game for Swallows And like Satrapi, Abirached approaches her personal story ambitiously, weaving the stories of her family members and their circle of neighbors and acquaintances into a tapestry of everyday life in war-torn East Beirut. Their
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The Golden Hour, By William Nicholson
London :: United Kingdom | 12 months ago
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The third volume of Nicholson's Sussex Downs saga, set over seven days in July, slips down like a fruity Pimm's. Thanks to the fluid third-person narration, newcomers to the series will have no trouble getting inside the heads of a cast of middle-
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Pentagon researching 'narrative networks' as way to hijack the brain with false stories
Claremont :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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It's a legitimate question, because the Pentagon is trying to find out...The concept is called Narrative Networks , and in an official solicitation the agency says anyone who submits a proposal "to this effort will be expected to revolutionize the
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You are what you read: How we naturally become similar to our favourite fictional characters
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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13 May 2012 It gives an entirely new meaning to 'losing yourself' in a good book. According to a new study, readers who identify with fictional characters can subconsciously adopt their behaviour. Researchers at Ohio State University say bookworms
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Book characters' lives can affect our own, studies show
Toronto :: Canada | 1 year ago
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But new research suggests the experience can go far beyond the page, with readers not just stepping into a character's shoes but also walking around in them. Across six studies with about 500 people, adopting a protagonist's feelings, beliefs and
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Could a computer have written this story?
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 1 year ago
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Narrative Science, and other tech companies, are creating computer programs that turn data into written stories. (CNN) -- Computer applications can drive cars, fly planes, play chess and even make music...Chicago-based company Narrative Science has
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