Preface
“Only connect!”
—E.M. Forster
When I was a graduate student in film school at UCLA many years ago, I sat in on a seminar class led by a high-profile movie producer (and one-time president of Sony Pictures). He exhorted the group to stop thinking about just trying to make movies and think about the entire field of entertainment. I found this heretical at the time; back then you were still either a “film person” or a “video person,” and there was a great deal of debate on the superiority of one over the other. It took a while to sink in, but surely enough, I began to think that the concepts of “entertainment” and even “storytelling” were too limiting. After all, there was also art, education, communication, and more to think about. I realized ...
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