In this podcast, an college professor breaks down some of the stories around us--including movies, TV shows, poems, and anything else that seems interesting.
In this episode, I talk about how Christopher Nolan's "Inception" and the more recent Marvel TV show" Loki" engage with how the human mind works.
In this episode, I work through one of the most important concepts behind narrative: "diegesis." This is the internal gravity of a story: when we enter a story for the first time, we enter a universe that exist independently of our own.
I will talk about why this is so important!
This episode is dedicated to breaking down the very opening of Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding-Hood (1697), and figuring out just how weird it is!
This is the first episode of "The Power of Stories," which gives a brief overview of the person who started the podcast and of the podcast itself.