Full article: Family Storytelling in a Story Economy - Taylor & Francis
Why does family endure in our stories? Because every other relationship has escape clauses. Lovers leave. Friends drift. But family—even broken, even fled from—leaves a grammar in us. We learn forgiveness because we’ve seen it modeled, or we learn silence because that was the only vocabulary offered. Cinema holds up a mirror to that first, indelible tether, and says: You are not alone in this knot. And that, perhaps, is all art ever needs to do.
For much of cinema history, the biological family was presented as the unquestionable ideal. The orphan wanted nothing more than a mother and father (see: Annie , The Wizard of Oz ). But the late 20th and early 21st centuries saw the rise of a counter-narrative: the family you build.
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