Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts
Friday, June 11, 2021

An Essay on the Monstrous

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman Source: Public domain What is “monstrous”? Does the concept change, thereby altering the understanding o...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Describing Images of Horror: Part 2

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   At the end of the initial post about this topic, I ended with this poster promoting the 1981 film Pos...
Monday, April 6, 2020

"Shadowed": An Amusing Vignette

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman   Shadowed (2020), directed by David F. Sandberg, star his wife, Lotta Losten, and five shadow p...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Narrative and Dramatic Technique

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Lately, I have become more and more interested in narrative and dramatic technique, in the use o...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Establishing Verisimilitude

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Imagine a woman sitting on her porch, reading a letter. Across a bed of bright petunias, she is being watc...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Discerning Meaning, or The Theme of the Story

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman One of the skills that we learn fairly early in our academic careers is how to spot the key idea of a pass...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Quick Tip: Narrative Reversals

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman   Most readers and writers know about plot twists, which usually result from situational irony--setting u...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Everyday Horrors: Masks

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Hillary: A Mask the Democratic Party Rejected as Presidential Candidate The mask that she wore, My fingers...
Monday, June 2, 2008

Purposeful, Frightening Scenes

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman The largest part of a story is an act. Acts are made up of scenes. Scenes, in turn, are made up of inciden...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Guest Speaker: H. P. Lovecraft: Supernatural Horror In Literature, Part VI

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VI. Spectral Literature On The Continent On the continent literary horror fared well. The celebrated short tales and novels of Ernst Theodor...