Sentences with phrase «eschews narrative»

Epaminonda eschews narrative in favor of a progression of seemingly random, fragmented images that examine the pliability of time and the facility of memory.

Moreover, Shetty's object language eschews narrative as well as established symbolism.

Her process eschews narrative and representation, focusing instead on the power of morphological and spatial changes to metamorphose the artifact.

Minimalism, in the classical sense, eschews all narrative other than analogy.

I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.

Summary: Eschewing narrative, Super Mutant Alien Assault delivers blissful arcade action for one or two local players.

That is to say: while I've thoroughly enjoyed certain quests in certain games, far too many side ventures eschew narrative reward, often serve as filler, and are ultimately plain boring.

Beginning with drawing and a schema, he would build layers of abstraction to explore spirituality and eroticism through paint, altogether eschewing narrative content or figuration.

Not exact matches

One of the common complaints against traditional evangelicalism is that it has been held captive by a distinctly Western approach to rationality that eschews mystery and narrative.

According to Johnson, «the synthetic picture of Jesus that Meier begins to advance in this volume... owes more than a little to a process of false inference, and to the contribution made by the Gospel narratives and interpretations that [Meier's] method began by explicitly eschewing.»

As for the postliberal claim to eschew the experiential subjectivism of liberal theology, Henry charged that in elevating narrative over factuality, narrative theology becomes unable to distinguish truth from error or fact from fiction.

The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.

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.

The film eschews the grounding of any sustained narrative or characterisation in favour of impressions of constant movement, energy and vortical flow.

Eschewing a traditional narrative, The Florida Project depicts the «hidden homeless», a community just about surviving in a candy - coloured motel around the corner from Disney World.

One is the way it eschews typical documentary narratives to just get right to the fireworks.

Even eschewing the conventions of three act arc is an increasingly rare bird on screen these days, let alone relying on a sole lead to carry the entire movie on her shoulders, but she's refreshingly well - adjusted for someone tasked with bearing such narrative responsibility.

Since returning from his 20 - year hiatus from filmmaking, Terrence Malick has not shied away from making films that eschew the tenets of traditional narrative in favor of frank yet enigmatic explorations of philosophy and spirituality.

Experimental film often eschews sequential narrative structure in favour of evoking an emotional journey; the viewer is meant to be engaged by the aesthetic or imagery rather than by the characters or story.

Conceived by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan during the writing stages of The Dark Knight Rises, the story of Man of Steel attempts to make Superman relevant to the modern age again, eschewing the traditional adventure narrative of the Richard Donner film, or the morose navel - gazing of Bryan Singer's 2006 reboot, and instead aiming to at once examine Kal - El's place in the world.

Eschewing basic narrative for capturing snapshot moments of youth and beauty — Tim Orr «s textured and contrasty cinematography is superb and Michael Linnen and David Wingo «s lilting acoustic score is plaintively tender — it's no wonder that just four years later Terrence Malick himself would ask the young filmmaker to direct the gothic Southern adventure horror «Undertow.»

Eschewing voiceover narration or some artificially manufactured chronological narrative structure, the movie instead more or less embraces chaos theory, loosely grouping its anecdotal insights with title cards.

Eschewing traditional narrative tropes, with no character names and very little dialogue, he and fellow screenwriter Walter Campbell have manufactured a scenario that throws normalcy and familiarity out with the bathwater.

One of 2014's more compelling documentaries, Laura Poitras» Citizenfour channels the measured cool of its subject — former National Security Agency analyst - turned - whistleblower Edward Snowden — and eschews the sensationalism of so many docs for a chilling, information - focused procedural that moves with the precision of a narrative thriller.

Saint Laurent With their strained efforts to eschew the obvious, one could argue that biopics trafficking in jumbled chronologies are in danger of becoming as clichéd as the traditional linear narrative.

A little seen and vastly underrated skid row drama, the film nimbly eschews convention, sidestepping almost every narrative beat associated with the boxing genre.

Headland's charming narrative eschews expected moralization for its procreant characters that audiences are meant to love, and expresses itself with open sexuality that comes without the context of cheap raunch.

Beginning life as Maddin's interactive Seances project, in which the director channelled the spirits of lost silent movies through improvised live happenings, the film eschews traditional narrative form to instead seduce its audience through its poetic visuals, compelling ideas and inspiring performances from the likes of Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Mathieu Almaric and Udo Keir.

The game eschews globe - trotting for a narrative set entirely in India (although it sometimes falls into stereotypes and gets weirdly dystopian), and yes, the game is led by women (and women of color, I may add) for the first time.

Although only a few hours long (you'll probably finish your first, normal difficulty run - through in an evening, though obviously that's always just the precursor to weeks of iterative, repeat play for progressive rewards, as part of Destiny's now huge melting pot of content), it's easily the most precisely curated chunk of campaign Destiny has yet seen, eschewing the early game's narrative vagaries and reliance on multi-purpose, overworld spaces in favour of pacing, storytelling and set - pieces entirely worthy of a focused, single - player FPS.

Telltale's The Walking Dead has popularized player agency and decision - making in modern narrative games, while thatgamecompany's Journey eschewed traditional dialogue in favor of a visual and audio - driven experience.

With Paul's ability to look into the past, the game eschews traditional linear narrative structures, instead encouraging you to explore the environment at a more methodical pace, piecing together the story as you see fit.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, brought to life by Masahiro Sakurai and a team at Bandai Namco, feels even more like a collection of cool toys in a box than previous installments, eschewing any attempts at narrative and cohesion in favor of a menu full of disparate - but - entertaining options.

Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives.

Eschewing the simplification of abstraction, the film employs the mainstays of narrative with a strong focus on temporality.

Eschewing his earlier tendencies in that direction, by the 1980s his work was figurative and even narrative, sometimes even based on the Inspector Maigret detective novels by Belgian author Georges Simenon.

The show argues that Lewis used abstraction throughout his career, after initially working along social realist lines, commingling it with the figure to comment on political issues involving race and civil rights, and introducing history and narrative into a style that eschewed such content in favor of medium specificity.

His work eschews representation, narrative, illusion, and conventional understandings of realism, instead exploring the material and compositional qualities offered by his media.

Proposing a DIY attitude toward pleasure, the action - packed video eschews artificial sets and lighting, commercially produced objects, and heterosexist narratives.

Beginning with a reflection on the early AIDS epidemic, Untitled eschews a linear narrative to introduce a fractious timeline, moving from the sublime to the tragic and back again.

During the past fifty years, because twentieth - century postmodernist art eschews aesthetics, women were freed to carve out a large part of the art world for themselves, by focusing on their own narrative and processes.

Williams eschews the materials and craft of these predecessors, but capitalizes on a similar type of descriptive visual narrative.

Through a careful balance of texture, tone, and repetition, Isaac weaves together elliptical cinematic narratives that eschew traditional storylines and function instead to elicit feelings of the uncanny.

Her works eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives, broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex and art history.

Seized the Imagination eschews linear storytelling in favor of disjointed narratives, creating an atmosphere that speaks to the helplessness many feel in the wake of today's political climate.

However this may apply to Takeshi's work specifically, for an artist basing his career upon the effect of digital media and moving images on viewers, the incorporation of narrative is an interesting move and additional visceral experience for a genre that once separated itself from commercial media by eschewing plot entirely — truly something «new» in New Media.

While the work is figurative in nature, evoking fable - like qualities, Shishkin eschews any concrete narrative.

And yet here, Frankenthaler, while referencing these giants of the 16th Century, also eschews their realism and narrative in favor of her loose abstraction.

The anti-climactic union eschewed any celebratory conclusion and contradicted the narrative of an easy return to some sort of Golden Age.