Flashbacks often make up small parts of movies, but some, like Citizen Kane, Memento, and Sunset Boulevard, are almost ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

In their previous collaborations, high school classmates Bob-Waksberg and Hanawalt — the two also worked together on Hanawalt’s friendship comedy “Tuca & Bertie” — extrapolated from Hanawalt’s ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Even when done well, the penultimate flashback episode has become such an endemic storytelling strategy in TV dramas that it should be abandoned on principle. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: ...

One brilliant way flashbacks can be used is in special episodes. Flashback episodes take place almost entirely in the past and can be used to upend viewer expectations about what they have been ...