Sentences with phrase «best narrative fiction»

The best narrative fiction films have at their center the war between two necessary and contradictory impulses: the impulse to observe and the impulse to declaim.

Not exact matches

A more unconventional narrative like one used in Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill wouldn't have worked as well here.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

This piece is better described as an interactive fiction narrative.

It's also more classically well composed than 99 % of conventional narrative fiction — in fact, a common (and correct) observation is that the story couldn't have been any more interesting or dynamic had it been fabricated from nothing.

Program Description: Designed to support distinctive new voices in world cinema working in both fiction narrative and documentary, the Open Borders Fellowship includes a development grant as well as a trip to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to receive the award and attend a curated slate of industry meetings, networking opportunities, panels, and screenings.

The only narrative (a.k.a., fiction) I have so far seen (though I have screeners at home screaming to be watched before the start of the festival) is (the also aforementioned) The Strange Ones, which tells a haunting tale of loss and redemption, and which won a well - deserved Special Jury Recognition for Best Breakthrough Performance at SXSW.

Some of the best games have engrossing stories full of memorable characters and following time - honored patterns from mythology and narrative fiction.

In contrast, the genres of fiction as well as autobiography are told through narrative where criteria for justification include verisimilitude — that is, the likelihood or probability of an event — and believability.

We have twenty years of experience working with a wide range of best - selling books and authors including narrative and literary fiction and non-fiction; memoirs; self - help; spirituality; cookbooks; politics; children's books; photo books; commercial fiction; history; science and the environment; fashion, and more.

She is highly interested in reimagined myths and fairytales from different cultures, historical fiction, and a good quest narrative in any genre.

«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.

Essayists and memoirists need to find the right persona for each piece, whereas the fiction writer must pinpoint the best narrative distance / s for a given story.

As a result, The Meaning of Night is a resolutely old - fashioned novel — not only because it tries to emulate some of the narrative qualities of mid-Victorian fiction, but also because of its simple aim of telling a good story as well as possible.

Best known for her work on the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (read our interview with her on the books here), she's now making her second foray into adult fiction after The Last Summer (of You and Me), your basic first - novel narrative of love and friendship.

Illustrated books tend to sell better in print, whereas works of fiction and narrative non-fiction sell very well in ebook format.

Adam: I've always been attracted to narrative in my work, as well as hardcore research, which I've also tried to incorporate into my fiction.

Best known for her narrative nonfiction, she has also published poetry, essays, literary criticism, autobiography and fiction.

Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.

Shana forged new paths for the agency, working in science fiction and fantasy and young adult, as well as following in our well - hewn paths in narrative non-fiction and memoir.

Interested in both commercial fiction (women's and mystery), and especially literary fiction (including historical), as well as narrative non-fiction.

What she wants to read: Literary and commercial fiction, especially upmarket and women's fiction, as well as select memoir, narrative nonfiction, cultural studies, and pop culture.

There will be: Social media — of course; Book marketing — absolutely; Publicity moxie — wouldn't leave it out; Book design — lots; Fiction structure — deep diving into narrative; Book trailers — the so - so, better and best; Amazon savvy — yes indeed; Blunders — critical issues to avoid; Findability — using the Internet town hall to maximize yourself and your book; eBooks — all the latest and how to create easy peasy; Repurposing — a zillion ways; Branding — get your label ready; Influence — to the nth degree!

Yet if an agency were receiving say, 100 submissions a week, all fiction narratives, how much time would it really take to see if any were good?

Over the course of this series Nath Jones's writing style develops from the raw, associative, tyrannic rambles of cathartic non-fiction, flash fiction, and rant in The War is Language and our digital domains, to the delightful rough - hewn vignettes of 2000 Deciduous Trees, into the compact characterizations of the fictionalized tellings in Love & Darts, and finally toward How to Cherish the Grief - Stricken's fully - crafted short stories that use literary devices and narrative elements to reveal a world well - rendered.

A good editor will enter the author's universe and come up with new and original ideas wherever needed to spike the story, deepen the personalities, add an unexpected dimension to the accelerating pace of the narrative, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

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And only in one area would I guess there might be some automatic bias toward a mainstream approach for certain kinds of content — well, two, actually: literary fiction and narrative non-fiction.

It publishes «narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international, and translated fiction.»

We've found some great new fonts to include with these designs, which will be a lot more complex than the current offerings, which were designed to work well for fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.

A good story is still a good story, and a compelling nonfiction travel tale will not just evoke a strong sense of place, it will contain the same human themes and narrative elements as a good work of short fiction.

The narratives were conceptualized with the inspiration from several well - known fiction and non-fiction stories (e.g., Cloud Atlas and Eternal Darkness) and other adventure games.

Its narrative set up is good guys versus bad guys, slugging it out in a science fiction war on the surface of the moon.

MPVAC investigates the emergence of digitally constructed identities, theoretical fictions, Amerika composts various art personas and classic 20th century artworks into a narrative sequence of mobile phone video images that conjure up both the spirits of the past as well as hauntological actors of the present.

Making use of both analog and digital photography, as well as video, they interweave document and fiction to create pliable narratives that explore contemporary relationships.

An Archive of Stones, to be periodically activated, speculated upon, damaged and finally gilded with fiction is a project which addresses the use and significance of stones in contemporary art, as well as their narrative or linguistic potential.

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).

It includes interviews with the artists, an in - depth exploration of the connections between science fiction, political and media narratives and contemporary art, as well as a major essay on the BBC television series Quatermass.

By weaving together historical fact, autobiographical data or excerpts from science - fiction films and didactic books, they build narratives and stories which amalgamate relevant coincidences from the past, as well as foretell the future.

Be it in the video - taped performances where I go into the public to perform comical good - deeds, as seen in Courtesy Moments: After You (part of the ongoing series Art that says Hello), in the literally submerged - narrative of the sculpture, Dig, where fact and fiction fold in on each other and draw the viewer in as well, or in the friendly but lifeless, implicit yet ambiguous purpose of the structure, Head - level Happening.

Ultimately, Garcia Torres» has presented his version of a story on the edge of a narrative landscape that has been remixed — not for the sake of accuracy, but for the good of a fiction he wants to tell.

Among the powerful narratives it channels are George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, Philip K. Dick's alternative - reality fiction The Man in the High Castle (as well as the current award - winning Amazon TV series based on the book) and the «fake news» discussed daily by our current POTUS.

Themes include narratives exploring identity, as individuals and as communities; as well as truth, fiction, and the unreliability of memory with the resulting exhibition offering a unique nationwide insight into UK art schools today.

This morning he posted «The Seduction of Narrative,» a piece that helpfully aggregates some of the best commentary on the big misstep by the public radio show «This American Life» in running Mike Daisey's fiction - laced accounts of Apple's manufacturing problems in China.