Sentences with phrase «classic narrative»

In an effort to appease us, the brain trusts behind these mega-budget blockbusters have ripped into the chest of classic narrative form and pulled out its heart, throwing it in a jar full of dirt so they can ignore it for long spells to amuse us with clownish characterizations and trivial distractions.

Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like classic narrative cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.

For an 11th - grade narrative unit, I asked students to analyze classic narrative essays such as George Orwell's «Shooting an Elephant» and Amy Tan's «Mother Tongue» using the traditional plot diagram and paying attention to literary narrative devices.

NYRB recently announced the upcoming launch of its fourth imprint, NYRB Lit, which will be releasing e-book formats of classic narrative nonfiction and contemporary fiction titles.

T.L. Solien entertains the paradox of «The Foreseeable Past» by imparting a contemporary perspective on classic narrative images from the annals of art history.

With weak oil prices and international sanctions crushing Russia's economy, «Putin has little else to offer to the public besides the classic narratives of Russia as a besieged fortress surrounded by enemies,» Borschevskaya said.

Though packed with numbers, Cook's hour - long speech followed a classic narrative framework - the Freytag Pyramid — and even looked ahead into the future.

Byron's Juan (who really little resembles the Juan of the classic narrative) is a figure of almost infinite romantic vulnerability.

«Heaven Knows What» has a looser structure than even «Kids,» but directors Josh Safdie and Benn Safdie must have been intent on showing us not a classic narrative with loose connections tied up but a laid - back look at the several days or weeks in the lives of a group of young people addicted to heroin.

They look back in the chest of this dead man called the classic narrative only to find it is filled with nothingness, and we all can do nothing but weep that the heart of storytelling beats for no one anymore.

The creative minds behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest have given us the antithesis of the classic narrative approach, and they do so because they think that audiences of today no longer seem to care about stories anymore.

This disjunction of sounds and images is of course a classic narrative devise of cinema (27) and functions as a kind of pedagogical entry into the visual regime of the film; it does interpolate the viewer and ask him or her to connect these tracks, not necessarily to make sense of them, but at least to organise a suspended logic of connectivity.

Jackson Ball reviews the sixth episode of Netflix's BoJack Horseman season 2... Episode 6 of takes a classic narrative thread, found previously in many a sitcom, and mixes it up with all the craziness we've come to expect from the show.

There is nothing clever about predicting what is going to happen in Gangster Squad because the film is so determined to fulfil every classic narrative development associated with the genre.

Branagh's take on Poirot allows room for fear, uncertainty and lost love, and duality is frequently suggested via reflections in glass and chrome — a technique overused in movies, no doubt, but one befitting such a classic narrative.

The reader shifts between a classic narrative style, which Harding uses to tell the peddler's story, and a more innovative narrative approach, describing the delusions, memories and dreamscapes of a man on his deathbed.

This is a classic narrative for the millions of dogs suffering from separation anxiety, and the owners who love them.

The classic narrative of an artist's life depicts a selfish man devoted to boozing and painting, a disappointed wife at home, and surly and estranged children.

After a weekend packed to the brim with trekking the Bushwick streets, exploring studios, exhibitions, parties, and all that comprises Bushwick Open Studios, nothing is better than kicking back on Sunday evening and watching an impeccable selection of short films spanning from experimental to classic narrative.