Story Archives - Research for Creative Media: Practice & Pedagogy

Breakfast in Xiaoshan: On Visions, Longing, and Basslines

Breakfast in Xiaoshan reflects on China, memory, migration and orientalism, tracing how a distant cultural vision became a lived encounter.

Kathryn Lawson argues that Nolan’s guilt-ridden Odysseus turns violence into redemption, replacing accountability with a ‘great men’ fantasy.

In a recent article for The Big Issue, I was invited to share thoughts on the rise of vertical micro-dramas and the future of storytelling.

In a forthcoming paper by Simon Brind he makes a simple distinction: plot is design, story is experience, and narrative is the sense we make.

If you want to understand where television might be heading next, don’t start with streamers or broadcasters. Start with micro-drama.

In this Creative Media Practice Research Insights episode, Emma Millions and Paul Jackson discuss how creative ideas are pitched and refined.

In this episode of Creative Practice Research Insights, Alison Norrington explores how ideas emerge, evolve, and gain creative momentum.

The City as Escape Room transfers the escape room metaphor to a complex layering of place, participation for transmedia storytellers.

Has sociobiology with its focus on evolutionary imperatives which positions storytelling within a purely biological discourse ruined ‘story’?

We live in a post-Bandersnatch age for interactive digital narrative, by which I mean, its release is a watershed moment.