Sentences with phrase «form narrative works»

The teaching I do at NYU, the deconstruction of great long - form narrative works, assists me in my writing.

Not exact matches

Today, however, biblical scholars increasingly analyze the plot of biblical narratives, the way the literary forms work, the patterns of climax and tension.

A collection of narratives originating for the most part independently of one another among tribal groups in Canaan later embraced in Israelite monarchy — a collection wrought and edited by DH (Deuteronomic historians responsible for the substantial present form of Deuteronomy - Kings).

In this respect, his approach is very different from that of another distinguished literary critic, Robert Alter, author of The Art of Biblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its final form.

Both are long - form works of narrative journalism.

lacks the straightforward narrative or melodic thrust of The Wall, but it isn't as somnolent as The Final Cut, and if the songs don't call attention to themselves, they nevertheless form a long suite that works as a sustained mood piece.

It's convoluted, to say the least, but Johnson, working with editor Bob Ducsay, gives the rush of these jumps in time a remarkable, lively flow that at once helps form the backbone of the narrative and exude the confusion felt by both Joes.

While I found it interesting to form my own rationale as to what the film is about, by the same token, I often am reluctant to actually recommend films that don't work on fundamental narrative terms without having to read personal philosophical theories into them.

He added, «The movie works so well for several reasons, and they don't all have to do with the spectacular special effects... [«Star Wars»] relies on the strength of pure narrative, in the most basic storytelling form known to man, the Journey.»

As with her previous work, Lynne Ramsay leaves her cinematography and editing to do any heavy lifting that the narrative calls for, the richest and most telling moments always coming in the form of an image rather than a line of dialogue.

This is the heart of Weerasethakul's work; taking old forms that have been suppressed or forgotten (as in the animist folk tales of Thailand) and re-forming them into narratives that speak with renewed urgency to the contemporary cultural climate.

Chanel will partner with Tribeca Enterprises for the third annual «Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program,» which works to support and promote emerging American women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative film.

Here's hoping it's a return to feature - length form after his dicey recent narrative work.

Anderson's work may not have a lot of narrative substance, but his visual sensibility is so well - developed that it often doesn't matter; form is substituted for theme.

Which is the truly maddening part of Kurtzman and Orci and Pinker's work — the individual scenes are frequently very well thought out, they just do not work together to form a competent narrative.

Since that time, Jia has spent time working in both the documentary form (Dong; I Wish I Knew) and through something approaching both documentary and narrative cinema (Still Life; 24 City), effectively — almost imperceptibly — combining devices from each in an effort at constructing an altogether new hybrid.

Varda has experimented with all forms of filmmaking from shorts to documentaries to narrative feature films during her more than 60 - year career, including such works as the New Wave classic Cleo from 5 to 7, and Le Bonheur.

Armando Ianucci (Veep, In The Loop) is one of the best satirists working today — certainly the best working in narrative forms.

Jeremy Wilker, owner of TWEAK Digital, loves making moving images and has created works, in documentary, commercial, narrative, and political forms, for businesses and organizations near (Golden Valley) and far (Hong Kong).

And I suspect some avant - garde film critics resent Akerman's steadfast refusal to confine her work to the avant - garde and experimental realm — instead moving freely between narrative and nonnarrative, relatively independent and relatively industrial forms of filmmaking.

But the inert interview framing narrative does no favors to the film or Natalie Portman's straining lead performance, and Larraín's attempts to convey the spirit of the era feels like watered - down Todd Haynes, minus the fascination with mystique, glamour, and forms that can make Haynes» work enticing.

This informational narrative in the form of a play is about a group of fourth grade students who volunteer to work with rangers on Padr...

While Camp Long - Form is mounting masterful drones about the joys of deep reads and rich narrative immersion, the Don't Blink squad presents a pizzicato counterpoint, talking to us (very fast) about how the «chunking» of bigger works into small pieces is the pathway to our fragmented future.

The odd - numbered chapters form the narrative of the linguists» visit to Al - Sayyid and their subsequent work deciphering its language.

He isn't working alone - in fact, his project is more of a translation, of laying out the work of other scientists and thinkers in an engaging, instructive narrative form for the lay - reader.

For Self, who wrote in the Guardian in May about how «the literary novel as an art work and a narrative art form central to our culture is indeed dying before our eyes», because «the hallmark of our contemporary culture is an active resistance to difficulty in all its aesthetic manifestations», the new statistics were no surprise.

Narrative Winter Story Contest Entries can include short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction.

I really believe that some stories need to be told in longer narrative form, and others, like the dozen in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, work ideally as shorter pieces.

This form of monetization works best with travel guides and how - to blogs (it's much harder for travel narrative blogs).

And to the extent that we have traditional narrative forms, where there is a story that the creative director made, this kind of hero works brilliantly.

I worked on a dying form — the point - and - click adventure — but as a result had the entirely enviable experience of having a not - yet - knighted Terry Pratchett as my first (and still utterly unparalleled) script editor, which I suspect did much to tie my career to game narrative, despite my certainty I was going to be known as a game designer.

Guided by a strong narrative and a distinctive visual style, players can use everyday items to battle danger that comes in many forms, from a range of unique, powerful enemy types to massive hordes working together to attack at will.

He explores the various myths and narratives about our creation and how we came to inhabit the earth through the use of the readymade and manmade products placed to mimic the digestive process; the work exists as a continuum with the different objects and materials interacting, forming a narrative.

In the years since then, he has worked consistently in series, pioneering new approaches to form, color, narrative, and abstraction with innovative paintings, prints, sculptures, and architectural installations.

Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas marry appreciation of these traditional forms of representation to a deep understanding of contemporary American culture to create insightful works that disrupt historic narratives and read canonic art history against the grain.

Cule is a producer of imagery; photography and video works are conducted through an editing process, to form narrative.

Laing frequently works in series, creating thematic bodies of work that are large in scale and scope and accumulatively form an ongoing narrative of events that have impacted cultural consciousness.

Jonas, who studied sculpture and art history, was deeply influenced by the work of Trisha Brown, with whom she studied dance, as well as John Cage and Claes Oldenburg, particular in their exploration of non-linear narrative structure and form.

Of the many competitors for our attention when we look at a work of art — meaning, narrative, form, colour, gesture, scale, sound, movement — its weight is not generally high in the list..

Lines and markings from basketball and indoor futbol courts, freehand signage, and milk crates are just a few of the forms that find their way into Quevedo's transcriptions; allowing the work to simultaneously serve as an homage to the narratives of historically marginalized peoples, and a platform for dialogue and community engagement on continued practices of marginalization.

The works are typically generated in response to specific historical material encountered in the process of making, researching and reflecting, often incorporating pre-existing forms, structures and art - historical narratives which are recreated, replayed and restaged as a means of exploring more contemporary stakes.

Known for championing artists who create groundbreaking and challenging forms of visual expression, Lehmann Maupin presents work highlighting personal investigations and individual narratives through conceptual approaches that often address such issues as gender, class, religion, history, politics, and globalism.

By his mid-twenties, where this exhibition begins, a dual sense for narrative mood and pictorial space already infused his work, with geometry often concealing and imprisoning the forms underneath.

As forms become fewer and denser in other works, the artist's titles imply vague narratives.

Cridler uses drawing as a practice of «noticing,» and this directly informs her recent work, in which the steel wire or rod becomes a line of inquiry into form, content, and the potential of narrative.

Working with drawing, video, sculpture, and installations, Hüner's practice focuses on constructed narratives and eclectic assemblages which explore the subjects of utopia, archaeology, ideas of progress, and the future through reimagining spatial and architectural entities and organic and artificial forms.

Important examples from each of Natkin's major bodies of work are on view to celebrate the artist's fifty - year commitment to pushing beyond the rigid boundaries of form and brushstroke and into the realm of what the artist himself referred to as the «inner narrative» of a work.

Multiple narratives and readings, as well as the approximate cartography of objects in space, are repeated thematically in the works in the basement, but the form is radically different.

Their work embraced different forms of narrative, often with psychological or erotic overtones, and new kinds of self - awareness and worldliness.

With these works she discusses a lost vision of land, voice, and agriculture, translating politically and personally compelling narratives into forms that question misperceptions of belonging in the United States.