While the medium was being used for propaganda and boosting morale, narrative cinema also got into the act, putting this global event on display either as backdrop or in the foreground. (dvdizzy.com)
[18] In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer's hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry. (en.wikipedia.org)
Through the montage of fragmentation of different natures, episodes, moments and brief shots, Der siebente Kontinent's first - generation modernist practices challenge the illusionism of classical narrative cinema and refuse the psychological elucidation of characters. (sensesofcinema.com)