How can ‘fiction literacy’ help people to get grip on the erosion of reality? Odile Heynders argues that trained or educated readers are capable of recognizing the permeability of factional and fictional elements in a narrative.
The cinematic viewing experience and the dream states have a comparable quality. Waking Life is an interesting and perplexing film about dreams and the nature of reality, that dares us to question whether we are dreaming or awake.
How much truth can we find in fictional representations of history? This paper explores the real and fictional elements in Chrsitopher Nolan's Dunkirk, and how they work together to immerse its audience in the historical event.
