Sentences with phrase «about genre conventions»

Mainstream audiences finally understand what comic nerds have been geeking out over for the past half a century, but this new understanding also lends itself to new questions about genre conventions.

Not exact matches

Thus in his essay on Psalms, Alter raises questions about authorship, dating and the sociological context, but then devotes the bulk of his attention to issues of genre, convention, style, structure, diction, literary allusion and thematic organization.

If it conforms to just about all the conventions of its young but growing genre, at least it does so with restraint, humor and compassion.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

Instead of approaching the decade through the lens of one genre or auteur, Bordwell thinks about the stylistic hallmarks that distinguished the decade — for example, screenwriting conventions like flashbacks — and how they paved the way for the classical Hollywood form we might take for granted today.

Again, it feels awfully conventional as the take - charge American puts together his team to go fix the situation, and nothing about the way it progresses rises above the crushing genre conventions.

Since Seven Psychopaths is about screenwriting and grappling with the conventions of genre filmmaking, it can still go places while spinning its wheels.

Developed separately from the Millar - penned comic on which it's loosely based, Vaughn's film improves on that version in just about every way, delivering a smarter (but no less absurd) take on Cold War - era spy movies that embraces as many genre conventions as it breaks.

A much anticipated film here was Kelly Reichardt's «Night Moves», a film about eco-terrorism that strips down the genre conventions and ends up giving us the bare bones of its topic.

Scholar Jeff Smith dives into this critically acclaimed gem in the latest episode of Observations on Film Art, exploring its playful experimentation with genre conventions and what it reveals about Altman's love - hate relationship with commercial cinema.

BL: My favorite thing about the horror genre is doing conventions and meeting the fans.

James: Yeah, we do get that exposition about Dr. Shane Brown's (Vincent Gallo) past interactions with Dr. Léo (Alex Descas) and his wife Coré (Béatrice Dalle), which seemed almost like a genre convention and suggested a plot that never really materialized.

The biopic is — with rare but important exceptions — a relatively anaemic film genre, and something here about the reduction of Chubbuck's story to its regimented codes and conventions renders it as little more than a classy TV movie.

But despite falling prey to many of the genre's conventions, the movie goes about it without any hint of cynicism.

Sharing some DNA with 2016's «Kate Plays Christine» — another inventive documentary about an infamous death that relies on contemporary performances — the movie doggedly avoids conventions of the non-fiction genre.

Get Out — Writer / director Jordan Peele made a genre horror film into the most potent statement on screen this year about race, cannily playing the conventions of the genre and the discomfort and hostility about race off of each other.

Unlike Quentin Tarantino, who carelessly purloins historic settings as a shortcut to the audience's emotional investment so he can get right to the gore, Peele cannily plays the conventions of the genre and the discomfort and hostility about race off of each other.

In conclusion, even though You're Next looks painfully generic in the trailers (and still suffers from a fairly boring first act), it plays around with genre conventions in a sly, subtle way, without making that What the Film's About like the self - serving cynicism of Cabin in the Woods.

Signs is different, using genre conventions brilliantly to tell a more intimate story about a man and where he feels his authority comes from.

I think such an interesting variable in film storytelling is just an audiences preconceptions about a genre and genre conventions.

I think you're exactly right about how outside readers can help us smooth out the genre conventions to flow more smoothly with the story.

Whether you go with basic genre conventions or attempt the trickier «lust factor» cover, your book cover needs to tell people what it's about in one second.

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For those who write in other genres there are conventions for them as well, but I write Sci - Fi / Fantasy so that's all I can speak about at the moment.

However, if you turn to the New York Times bestseller lists, or the Man Booker Prize winners, or mainstream convention fiction and nonfiction outside of these very specific topics or genres, then that's about simply having great books offerings and making their device the one that you adopt to get your books on.

«It was my go - to idea about how a game would function... But taking genre conventions as your starting point is kinda boring.»

The constant change of genre raises questions about the conventions of photography and the authenticity of the photographic image.

Coming of age as an artist in Duesseldorf during the»60s, Polke was a colleague of Germany's genre - bending titan Joseph Beuys, who taught at the Duesseldorf Art Academy from 1961 to» 71; like Beuys, Polke doesn't just steadfastly reject conventional approaches and beliefs about art - making — he barely seems to notice such conventions exist.