More than a few social-issue groups have hoped for a mention on mainstream TV. After all, television sitcoms ...

Sure, we can tell stories on film to festival audiences, or amongst ourselves in a small grassroots organizing group. ...

) Documentary films are often used in social-change efforts. But fiction films? Not so much. That’s surprising, given that ...

IMAGINING UTOPIA: I think you’ll have to admit it’d be pretty cool to go to a school that had ...

THE SHAPES OF STORIES: Novelist Kurt Vonnegut’s rejected master’s thesis described the “shapes” of stories. Here, graphic designer Maya ...

PERIODIC TABLE OF STORYTELLING: Above, an ingenious representation of the biggest tropes on television, broken down into categories of ...