Sentences with phrase «cinematic tropes»
"Cinematic tropes" refers to recurring or common elements, themes, or ideas used in movies. These could include specific character types, plot devices, or visual styles that are frequently seen and recognized by viewers. Full definition
The main figure, a former Miss Colorado, becomes an actress in Walker's paintings, playing into the fantasy and cinematic trope of the LA woman with the enviable life of ease and affluence.
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The tweaking of genres — the prison - escape flick in Chicken Run; monster horror in Were - Rabbit — in ways that made fun of cinematic tropes while also rapturous embracing them has elevated Park's work way above the standard notion of «it's a cartoon, it's just for kids.»
In their 2004 book Australian Cinema After Mabo authors Felicity Collins and Therese Davis drew a line in the sand in terms of the screen portrayal of Australia's landscape, identifying cinematic tropes that existed prior to the High Court's 1992 Mabo decision, which identified land in the Torres Strait as terra nullius: no man's land.
You might read that plot description and see the exact places where cinematic tropes plug in from similar films of racial history or domestic romance.
Chastain is excellent as Abel's hot - headed, mobbed - up wife, Anna (a nice inversion of the customary cinematic trope), and Brooks — almost unrecognizable under a mop of flat, gray hair — gives perhaps the most wonderfully understated performance of his career.
Other cinematic tropes are evoked, from the literal monsters of Alien (yes, a chest cavity is breached) and to the subconscious anxieties of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
It hits many of the well - trodden gay and lesbian cinematic tropes, but the relationship between the two groups gives a new perspective on the issues, with a bit of fish - out - of - water humor that feels refreshing.
Beaucage brings about this reversibility in the exhibition by choosing a series of paintings that mixes the plot in a non linear fashion, including molly induced moments and cinematic tropes in 3D.
Artists such as Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons employed this strategy, but referenced specific cinematic tropes rather than documentation in their fabricated pictures.
Featuring three video works, which concisely explore cinematic tropes without ever succumbing to the faults of oversimplified, didactic cliches or undecipherable abstract concepts.
Despite its fascinating subject and seductive cinematography, Akomfrah's work ultimately disappointed, relying too heavily on romantic cinematic tropes like slow - motion pans, period clothing, and lingering shots of actors gazing into the distance.
In this manner, Azari extracts source material from Persian art and literature and re-deploys it through the use of Western cinematic tropes and contemporary technologies such as digital editing and green screen.
In their Gazawood series of posters advertising films named after Israeli army operations, the brothers both employ and subvert common cinematic tropes to comment on the violent situation in the occupied territories.
He layers cinematic tropes into a soundscape that mixes canned effects and foley with audio samples from comedian Rick James on Chapelle's Show to Warren G and Nate Dogg's 90s classic «Regulate» among others, actively recalibrating audio and visual coherence.
This is not to discount the experience of any person who did indeed have a sudden personal and sexual awakening over the course of just a few days, yet to structure a narrative about a traditionally (in Hollywood, anyway) scary minority in such a manner threatens to dehumanize the trans community by alienating audiences sadly accustomed to the abrupt nature of this cinematic trope.
This touch of movie magic is actually a way for the filmmakers to tartly examine the cinematic trope of the manic pixie dream girl and the larger problems inherent in searching for someone who's perfect for you.
The film takes these cinematic tropes, and runs with them, making the definitive heist film of all time, and one of the best action films (and dramas also!)
Among my other interests are comics, movies and boring my wife to death with talk of «cinematic tropes» and «narrative arcs».
His work explores historical painting, cinematic tropes, psychoanalysis and post-colonial theory, and his studio program interrogates narrative cliches, alongside established European notions of representation in order to address questions of nationhood, anti-colonial sentiments and the perception of historicized events.
Influenced by pulp fiction and cinematic tropes, self - taught photographer and film - maker Alex Prager creates striking, sometimes unnerving images that are filled with a dynamic cast of characters.