So new kinds of storytelling evolved, published in the new illustrated magazines such as Picture Post and Life.
Spurning linear storytelling, evolving according to connections that are more poetic than novelistic, Angelopoulos sketches a portrait of the old and new generation.
Popular religious storytelling evolved from dense medieval comic-strip art to Renaissance miracles of human drama like Piero's Baptism or Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.
Even as our modes of storytelling evolve and adapt across time (from our ancestors painting on cave walls to our teenagers writing on Facebook walls), stories will never stop being the emotional glue of society.
As the mechanics and technologies for storytelling evolve, it presents an opportunity for new business models to emerge, Sankaran says.
As genres and modes of storytelling evolve alongside the development of new technologies, so fresh methodological opportunities arise for researchers to observe audience reactions to emergent textual forms.
Jane Rosenthal, the festival's co-founder, told me that she's had a long interest in games (she even produced one in the '90s), and she said she's been particularly excited to see video game storytelling evolve beyond,, say, simulating sports and shooting things.
It's a kind of storytelling that evolved out of the "underground" comics movement of the 1960s and 70s, when artists like Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, S Clay Wilson and others were trying to find ways to make dirty, weird, intensely personal work that had more in common with the iconoclastic fine art of the period than with pulp fiction – the prose genre that birthed the first superheroes.
And if I had to guess how storytelling might evolve in the near future, I'd say that it would be the use of storytelling technologies that bring you even closer to the people you are trying to engage.
As opposed to any of the cartoons of the '90s and early '00s, storytelling has evolved a lot, and you get more of an arc in an 11-minute show than you used to".
