Sentences with phrase «common narrative device»

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Price similarly functions as a narrative device (a Terminator-esque threat meant to keep Neeson and Kinnaman running), but even in a mostly wordless performance, Common manages to make the hitman an interesting and frightening figure.

A leading theory for the un-killing of these Avengers is linked to some sort of time reversal; the kind of narrative device that's a common refrain in comic book story lines.

This common aesthetic tends to be highly narrative, and draws on postmodern devices such as the use of the readymade and strategies of appropriation.