Sentences with phrase «cinematic narrative conventions»

While never the most conventional screenwriter to begin with («Pulp Fiction» is a sprawling, ambitious jigsaw puzzle, for one), in recent years Tarantino's screenplays have pushed the envelope further, eschewing most cinematic narrative conventions, with his movies becoming more like filmed novels that don't bother with traditional structure.

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If his last film, the atmospheric, if claustrophobically nondescript saga of love and woe To the Wonder was the acclaimed filmmaker's attempt to pick away at cinematic convention, it is with this one that he abandons traditional narrative constructs entirely.

This group — ranging from classic Untitled Film Stills of the late 1970s to untitled «prosthetic» works of the 1990s — privileges specific instances in which Sherman adopts or stages — through the collision of multiple photographic, cinematic, and narrative conventions — heightened states of emotional distress and psychological anxiety.

Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.

The 40 - minute work explores loss and grief as much as the narrative constructions of fiction and the cinematic conventions used in documentary films.