Sentences with phrase «as a narrative device»

The biographies, basic and concise, provide lesser - known and engaging elements of each saint's life, though they serve primarily as narrative devices that possess greater value for Campbell than for her readers.

It harks back to Martin Scorsese's New York nightmare Taxi Driver by using a journal as a narrative device.

It kind of worked, bringing a nice relationship between the two characters and Farrell acting as a narrative device for the audience to explore McClane's character a bit more.

Alexa Vega plays Breslin's sister and the writers see her as a narrative device to kick off the rivalries between Purefoy and Bean.

Price similarly functions as a narrative device (a Terminator-esque threat meant to keep Neeson and Kinnaman running), but even in a mostly wordless performance, Common manages to make the hitman an interesting and frightening figure.

It's assumed therefore that the murk is primarily there as a narrative device and to act as an opposition to our hero.

Two things simultaneously alienated theatregoers and absorbed theatre critics: the starkness of Welles's stage direction and the innovative use of mise en abyme as a narrative device.

They utilise tropes of the musical, from the abstract repetitions and rhythms of playground chants and nursery rhymes, to the cathartic effect of song as a narrative device.

Now I'm looking at the greenhouses [at Wave Hill] as a human - plant - technological system, using the structures of the greenhouse and the relationship humans have to maintaining plants, as a narrative device in sculpture.

, landscape functions as a narrative device that tests limits by actually working within the predetermined parameters of time.

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The iPhone X has been Apple's top selling device every week since it came out last fall and was the best selling phone model in China, Cook noted multiple times on the call, as he sought to combat the negative narrative some analysts were pushing.

With millennials consuming more and more of their media through mobile devices and social platforms, executives at Indigenous Media bet that Snapchat users would warm quickly to the idea of following a narrative story posted in regular installments to social media, as opposed to the traditional theatrical experience.

It has to be said the movies refusal to take itself to seriously gives it a boost of revitalisation and fun as it runs through its otherwise tedious narrative, one monotonous plot device at a time.

No less important, this film relies on a variety of storytelling devices and narrative forms, such as narrative painting, the gothic tale, the incest story, the letter, the dream, the flashback, the omniscient narrator, and the horizontal wipe.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

It's an old and trusted narrative device, as through Norman's eyes we can see how his fellow crewmen — Shia LaBeouf's Bible - quoting psychopath, Jon Bernthal's primal Southerner and Michael Pena's earthy Hispanic — have been moulded if not warped by what they've seen and done.

Whereas his later gialli tended to cram in more and more bizarre plot devices to make the narratives as incredible as his imagination, Argento was still finding his feet with this movie and it benefits from not being as excessive, not just in the gore and nudity departments but also in the characters.

Utilizing a cut - and - paste animation style with a photographic edge to recreate scenes from Hicks's life, usually to cheeky effect, American turns some 90 minutes of interview footage into a smooth, illustrated, altogether agreeable narrative that is chock - full of anecdotes and achieves a genuine intimacy without resorting to hero - worship (only the occasionally lame visual, such as the whitewashed depictions of tripping during Bill's mushroom blowouts at Kevin Booth's ranch, weaken the device).

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.

Again, it's as if LvT is arguing with himself over narrative devices and the strength of his own storytelling.

Working with a strategized network narrative — one that stands out from the many in Bordwell's samples, the year 2000 film had appeared as less all - encompassing and oddly mapped out, but after the screening I felt that device was no less disciplined as it engages the viewer by revealing some information, dispelling some, while omitting others — those countless fades to black are welcome beats for analysis.

We haven't even mentioned the narrative device used to tell the story of «Moby Dick» s inception, as the author of that classic American epic, Herman Melville, is himself too a character in Howard's whale tale.

The Kubruckian overtones of Interstellar make it an intriguing fit for Chris Nolan's storytelling style and mise - en - scène (re: visual composition); plus, wormholes present an obvious narrative device for jumping around in time (as he's inclined to do, regardless).

In a nice touch, he uses the latter - day testimony of Bulger's old partners as an effective narrative device: the feeble revenge of underlings grizzled, used, arrested, utterly spent.

In a tonally bizarre framing device that never feels right, the film uses John Holmstrom (Josh Zuckerman), founder of Punk Magazine, as the audience proxy into the venue's happenings, and it also uses his publication's cartoonish aesthetic as narrative punctuation.

I still think De Palma is far more advanced than most of his followers in the sophistication of his filmmaking and the ingeniousness with which he renders his films as devices, narratives, an artist's artefacts, and commentaries on the audience's own viewership.

The film presents that journey as a series of false starts (An episode with three very talkative and very, very dense trolls is a highlight and offers the first instance of a few dei ex machina within the story; Tolkien, obviously aware of his proclivity for using the device, invented a new word — eucatastrophe — as a substitute), and it's not until the company leaves Rivendell that the narrative finds its footing and emotional center.

Whether the syrupy tunes (penned by the duo behind La La Land's songs) annoy or mesmerise, they carry the film through as proper narrative devices, rather than tacked on flourishes, which shows an impressive and touching level of genre - specific dedication from Jackman and director Michael Gracey.

But it has also been criticized for a perceived tone - deafness toward racism and / or absolving racism through Sam Rockwell's bigoted cop character, as well as relegating the realities of racism in America to background fodder and narrative devices, rather than in - depth explorations.

Created for A-Level students and includes the following key information in an easy to understand, but high level presentation: The narrative with key quotations from each section of the text; Poetic devices; Structure of the text and significance; Links to the Canterbury Tales as a whole and literary context; Settings and explanations; The Franklin and how he is significant in telling this tale; Genre and the Breton Lay; What some of the key critics say about The Franklin's Tale; Notes on Kittredge and the marriage group of tales.

For an 11th - grade narrative unit, I asked students to analyze classic narrative essays such as George Orwell's «Shooting an Elephant» and Amy Tan's «Mother Tongue» using the traditional plot diagram and paying attention to literary narrative devices.

Collaborating with eLearning developers over the last 10 years, I've studied how eLearning course narratives are - or are not - fully utilized as a dramatic device.

«We recommend the Microsoft Word path as the best option for most fiction and narrative non-fiction authors because it's the easiest method to produce high - quality ebooks that are readable on any e-reading device.

But comments on the piece indicate a frustration with the widely shared unwillingness to say that a yarn told on an electronic device is every bit as good in terms of narrative technique and potential as one told on paper.

Please join me for our next video in which we will continue our discussion of the Women as Background Decoration trope by examining the growing trend of exploiting sexual violence as a plot device in game narratives.

So as a plot device which drives elements of the game's narrative, she's very significant.

The meta - game of Final Fantasy characters as marketing devices is allowed to invade their in - game narrative reality.

«We're used to thinking about consequences in games as being win - states and fail - states,» says Elliott, «or as narrative branching devices.

Sometimes in these types of games, females characters are either secondary, unimportant in the grand scheme of the narrative, overly sexualized, or merely serve as a plot device to galvanize and progress the main male character's actions or motivations.

To become more like Don't Look Now in placing sex as an important narrative device that impacts the story and its protagonist.

in placing sex as an important narrative device that impacts the story and its protagonist.

(b. Regina, Canada) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, interested in productive miscommunications, slips in language and how they can act as structural devices within narrative.

Vishal Jugdeo (b. Regina, Canada) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, interested in productive miscommunications, slips in language and how they can act as structural devices within narrative.

The singular artist, her patented methodology, her hand, her oeuvre, a life primed for retrospection contra the looming anticipation of death, banal idioms whose meanings have worn through semantic satiation, the grand narrative of painting and its anthropomorphic object, legends of pop culture, salient reason itself — all appear to instinct as enframing devices or resistances to subvert.

David Frankel described the work in Artforum as «involving a series of interlocking situations or narratives carried by videos and installations, their sites ranging from a 1970's caravan seen in Magic to a teenage girl's bedroom (in Frenchy) to a nightclub (The Hungry Brain) to the kitchen of three London flatmates (Dream Interference Device).

In the past, Mr. Kirkeby has relied on layering as a procedural device, sometimes clogging his surfaces with multiple coats of pigment, insisting on a studio narrative that defies the basic tenet of Action Painting: the organic, spontaneous response to the painting's own trajectory as it unfolds in the present moment.

This common aesthetic tends to be highly narrative, and draws on postmodern devices such as the use of the readymade and strategies of appropriation.

The film is a surrealist combination of Hitchcock's trademark cameos, in this case by doppelgängers of the famous director, as well as Grimonprez's first reference to Hitchock's The Birds and the actress Tippi Hedren, all critical narrative devices in his subsequent full - length feature Double Take.

Richardson is fascinated by the ways we connect with landscape; within her deeply layered practice, she draws on narrative devices used in science fiction and B - movie horror films, as well as nineteenth - century landscape painting, with particular interest in the apocalyptic conjurings of John Martin (British, 1789 - 1854).