If only there had been data mining around in Aristotle’s time. The Greek philosopher was one of the first to try to define how many different stories there are in the world. He believed that every ...
The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker Continuum £25, pp728 Christopher Booker's hefty tome of cultural archaeology is peculiar, repetitive, near-barmy and occasionally rather good. He takes the ...
In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic "situations," first running them down in outline form, then ...
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