Sentences with phrase «as blatant manipulation»

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Most of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).

Aside from the aforementioned instances of blatant depth manipulation, Walsh keenly seizes the more pragmatic uses of the illusory optics, in the form of interior staging, with tables and bottles and barrels serving as prominent parts of a scene's foreground design, and in a wonderfully mounted gunfight, shooting through doors, windows, and fences.

By devoting about as much screen time to this blatant bout of media manipulation as to Mäki himself, Kuosmanen indicates his desire to make us aware not only of the ways the media creates popular narratives out of these athletes» lives, but of the kind of clichés such narratives enforce.

The Marcott et al. hockey stick study published in the journal «Science» has now been debunked as bogus AGW science due to blatant data and statisitical manipulations - the author's own PhD thesis is corraborating audit evidence that charlatan - style science is required to produce hockey stick blade