Tran|Script

Fascinating psychological study:
To investigate determinants of mystery enjoyment, a short story was manipulated to produce different levels of uncertainty regarding two suspects’ criminal involvement (low vs. high uncertainty) and to create different resolution types (denouement, confirmation, and surprise). Participants’ (N = 84) reactions and enjoyment were ascertained via questionnaires after [...]

I’ve been thinking a bit in the past week about whether novels can be more like the modern TV series.
Over the past two decades TV has evolved from a purely serial art form (see, for example, Law and Order)  to an art form that operates on both an episodic and a series level (see, for [...]

Reading Christie’s The Pale Horse and struck again by a couple things in Christie.

We think of Christie as chronicling the 30s, and that’s what most of the horrible TV remakes have focussed on. But for Christie it wasn’t nostalgia, it was a real desire to engage and dissect a contemporary world. The Pale Horse continues [...]