Sentences with phrase «as a narrative medium»

I didn't think of the book as a narrative medium to be translated into a film until much later.

Not exact matches

As we discussed in the social media chapter, it's primarily an «opinion leader» medium, meaning that it offers campaigns opportunities to reach people who can shape the public narrative around their race.

I'd say its cobbled - together story, brutal violence, and stylistic excess are comparable to a video game, but that would be an insult to some games (and I'm not being sarcastic, as there are definitely games that are the result of coming to grips with narrative and learning to channel the medium into something relatively fulfilling).

That it messes with structure and medium is nothing new, but as with the casting of Downey Jr. and Monaghan as grammar - school classmates (even as it's commenting on Hollywood's treatment of women, it's guilty of it), as it's fucking with the way we look at film and understand narratives, it's indulging in the topsy - turvy, smart - alecky vogue of Guy Ritchie / Christopher Nolan chic.

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times: To say that Charlie Kaufman «Äôs «ÄúSynecdoche, New York «Äù is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now... Despite its slippery way with time and space and narrative and Mr. Kaufman «Äôs controlled grasp of the medium, «ÄúSynecdoche, New York «Äù is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness.

It did so at the dawn of a new era for independent American narrative film, as pictures such as Medium Cool, Easy Rider, and Putney Swope were also taking shape.

Coming from the approach that form creates content, we can open ourselves up to understanding that any plot or narrative can be executed effectively and interestingly in the medium of moving images we know as cinema.

Whether students represent their thinking with paint, pencil, collage, sculpture, or clay, the medium is not as important as the narrative students create.

But just as sexuality plays a significant role in YA novels written only in words, it's key to a few of these narratives, too — the only difference is the medium in which it's presented.

We are looking to hear from fans of the comics medium, as well as new fans who might want to sample some of the best work that the graphic narrative has to offer!

Film seems to have succeeded the written word as preferred narrative vehicle of our time; and though it is no small irony that writers have championed the cinema, they have articulated a unique insight into the medium.

«In Electricomics, the world's oldest narrative art form and youngest technology combine as a uniquely 21st century medium, establishing a thought - through toolkit of open - source effects enabling its audience to create digital comics themselves, bringing their vital ideas to an exciting new mode of entertainment and education.»

As with her article on Tezuka's peers, «Before the Forty - Niners» offers a rich, nuanced look at the development of manga that challenges some well - rehearsed narratives about the medium's history.

Although ebooks can contain links (and usually do), the nature of the medium encourages readers to move through the narrative in the same way as they would with a printed book.

I think that in order for the games industry to advance, to be embraced alongside films and books as a legitimate storytelling medium, it needs to exhibit the same range of narrative freedom — and that means, yeah, there's gonna be some sexy time.

Capcom's decision to follow Telltale's hugely successful episodic format bred some surprise among the gaming community, which previously recognized the episodic medium as aimed towards much more narrative - driven games.

He studied Mass Communication in Hamburg and developed the game Edna & Harvey: The Breakout as his diploma thesis (video games as a non linear narrative medium).

These idiots review a game and are unable to distinguish that unlike a book or film, games are a medium which offer three dimensions and the ability to interact with the characters, to feel the exposition through gameplay as opposed to narrative.

They are seven prizes up of grabs: Excellence in Visual Art, Audio, Design and Narrative, the Nuovo Award (which is «given to the game title that makes the jurors think differently about games as a medium»), the Best Student Game and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.

Because of technological issues (as well as limited experience with a narrative medium), cut scenes became famous in the Super Famicom and Playstation 1 eras, because of their effective nature in telling a story.

The group show will engage a dialogue of the themes and narratives resonating amongst sculptors through works in mediums such as metal, stone, clay, wood, glass, recycled materials as well as mixed media.

O'Reilly's understanding of the language of painting as a medium allows for the evolution of narrative in his palettes and mark - making.

The group show will engage a dialogue of the themes and narratives resonating amongst sculptors today through works in mediums such as metal, stone, clay, wood, glass, recycled materials as well as mixed media.

In addition to his physical relationship to the medium, Otero often calls upon personal narrative or memories as a starting point for his paintings.

But thanks to a uniting medium (biro), colour scheme (red, blue, black, green) and technique (near - obsessive circular marks), these disparate scenes appear as consecutive stills from the same narrative strip.

Storytelling, or the narrative structure itself, has served as a medium in its own right, providing artists with a new kind of raw material with which to craft their photographic and filmic imagery.

By turning their camera to women, including themselves, these artists embrace the female body as a vital medium for expressing identity, reflecting individual and collective experience, and forming narratives.

Consistent with his work to date, this latest series mines emergent evolutions of identity, narrative, language, and visual culture for content, and propels these matters forward as expressive mediums, through darkly jubilant and categorically frenetic formal experimentations.

His powerful epic narrative is the result of elevation and transformation of the medium of drawing into the painting through the use of traditional methods of processing light and dark as the primary elements.

As part of Expanding Narratives, this presentation explores how printmaker Félix Buhot dissolved classic distinctions between figure and ground in ways that challenge the limits of the etching medium.

Through mediums such as video and sculpture, she plays with and defies narrative processes through the phenomenon of detachment, re-appropriation and semantic displacement.

Utilising a range of source materials from found imagery, film stills and the internet, the new works featured in this exhibition raise narratives and juxtapositions regarding the history of the painted canvas and the photographic medium as visual document.

«Medium» is about more than the paranormal; it's about reconciling our past with our present, and the ways in which the truth can slip and slide as we construct narratives based on belief rather than fact.

The resulting works thus collapse the distinction between sculpture and other art mediums, such as painting and poetry, into a complete corporal, temporal, and narrative form.

His extravagant narratives combine influences that feed into a bizarre and unfathomable alternate reality, one where everyone from Renaissance masters to Francis Bacon and Picasso act as advisors to a deeply personal deconstruction of the medium of painting itself.

Mateo's sculptural work makes use language as a tool of narrative and of absurd abstraction, shifting in scale, and exchanging mediums in an attempt find a means a performative production.

Since first showcasing her video work at her Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective in 2002, Rovner has pioneered the use of the moving image as a non-narrative, non-cinematic medium for the creation of painterly images and installations which, like painting and sculpture, conjure the timeless realities in a way the narrative arts can not.

Curated by Anne Leighton Massoni & Libby Rowe, the traveling exhibition consists of 64 works by 23 artists focused on photography as a medium for storytelling and discusses the roles photographer, viewer and the image play in constructing narrative.

As a medium, drawing covers a range of attitudes in art, from the immediate, intimate and subjective to investigative, analytical and narrative.

By re-creating, displacing, and transforming seemingly familiar images, objects, sites, and actions, the artists construct distinctive narratives as well as explore the role of the mediums.

The medium scale canvases suit Sullivan's ability well as he creates a vague narrative through organic forms and cracked paint.

More recently, Dean has addressed the relationship between theatre and film — notably in Event for a Stage (2015), a collaboration with the actor Stephen Dillane, which began as a series of live performances — opening up a new front in her challenge to conventional hierarchies of narrative, medium and genre.

Using cultural matter as his material - medium, he references art, history and theory to form a spatial and temporal narrative arc made up of intercommunicating texts, combined with an interest in the sculptural possibilities of cinematic structures and mise en scène.

Contrary to contemporary postmodern artists utilizing Letterform in art for mostly conceptual purposes, or Concrete Poetry that involves a form of Visual Poetry, Concrete Alphabets acts as hybrid where each artist defines his own work based upon unique personal narratives involving aspects of Letterform / Alphabets An important aspect of this shared perspective is how each artist has maintained and utilizes analog painting as a medium, thus allowing them to keep their own signature mark making prevalent in the artwork.

In Siegel's hands, Black Moon, which Malle described as a ``... strange voyage to the limits of the medium,» becomes a present - day science fiction without dialogue, traversing multiple film tropes — action, guns, lonely campfires, the end of the world — and, like its band of armed female revolutionaries, resists taking up residence in a fixed narrative or genre.

Deploying mediums such as creative writing, visual and performance art and audio narrative, White Collar Black Body provides a space to unpack and affirm layers of Black identity and ultimately dissect the heart of what it means to be Black at work in 21st century America.

More recently, artists such as Victor Burgin and Judy Fiskin (American, born 1945) have pushed the narrative possibilities of the medium still further, using video to address the shifting meaning of art at different times and in different contexts.

This multiplicity of narrative is reflected in the use of a number of mediums, as well as in the inclusion of ephemera and historical documents belonging to the artist.

Here we see the assertions of personal preferences and most vividly, the parallels in style and approach: a laissez - faire attitude towards medium, a propensity for using found materials, an equal interest in the common - place as source material and an injection of personal experience and narrative - which remained a common thread for most the group throughout their careers - are clear.

This is undoubtedly a show of epic scale, a discourse intended to stimulate our understanding for our surrounding environment and register our nebulous existence as the medium of our past, present and future narrative.