A term I’m sure most of us are familiar with is “breaking the 4th wall.” The idea of the 4th wall comes from theater, where a stage is made up of three walls with the invisible 4th wall facing the...
We’re told to avoid cliches in any art form, and often critique other art pieces for participating in them. And as we should. Cliches can often be counterproductive to any form of art. A poem...
Style over substance is a common expression, but it implies that style has no substance. At all. Is that fair? I saw James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water recently, and like most people was...
