Thought Summer is back with a double bill.
First: stories as warnings — how films, fables, blockbusters, and personal work carry ideas about danger, politics, and what a culture thinks is worth fearing.
Prompt: when you watch a film, ask what warning it is giving you — and who benefits from that warning.
Then: reality TV is cinema — not as a guilty pleasure, but as a produced, emotionally legible document of what people think an audience wants.
Prompt: watch a reality-TV moment as a piece of storytelling. What does it reveal about what people think is entertaining, acceptable, popular, or punishable?