Sentences with phrase «framing device for»

The installation is an effective framing device for the overtly narrative and conversational videos.

In the main gallery space, Raskin retrofits an architectural gesture / framing device for various smaller scale collages that both describe the Nike / Hercules sites that she visited on her research trip and use abstraction to loosen the semantic attachment to the nature of the sites, bringing to the foreground ideas of form, composition, color and geometric abstraction.

His paintings start to feature black lines, first as a framing device for both every individual form in the painting and the painting itself.

The unique context of the gallery's location — a converted wing of a castle, set in extensive formal gardens — provides a further framing device for the exhibition's broad theme of contemporary arts» use and understanding of the historic genre of still life.

Of course, the plot is just a framing device for the actual gameplay, and the biggest and most apparent change from the previous installments is the shift from 2.5 D to 3D — the cost of which has been blamed on the game's brevity.

It's not really an issue though, as it's merely a simple framing device for the overall game, and you'll also be having too much of a crazy time to really care.

Really though, this narrative is merely a framing device for the game, and after the cutscene it's non-existent.

Is it that difficult to come up with a different framing device for a narrative?

Her scenes serve as a dull framing device for the film, carrying us through Marston's career and helping connect dots that the audience should be able to figure out for itself.

The film utilizes Turing's 1951 police interrogation by a sympathetic and curious detective (Rory Kinnear) as a framing device for the three significant time periods of his life.

Brian Cox makes one squirm uncomfortably, but only because he has such a clichéd role as the present day storyteller — I haven't seen a sincere form of this cheesy framing device for years.

One of the best examples of this is the framing device for the main on - ship action: modern - day scenes in which an aged Rose (Gloria Stuart) tells her story to an expedition crew (led by Bill Paxton) searching for a legendary blue diamond called «The Heart of the Ocean.»

Morris departs from his head - on camera, an interrogatory framing device for which he is so well known, and instead frequently appears in shot opposite his subjects.

They serve as both framing devices for the drawings as well as projection devices for the sound installation developed with Tcherepnin.

Tourism, the service industry, and the American dream serve as the framing devices for works that mine — and undermine — constantly shifting dynamics of power.

Not exact matches

This device can easily be attached to a door frame for instant interactive and fun way to amuse and delight your baby.

That information was added to the requirements for protecting the building frame to calculate the optimal size of the dampers and yielding devices and locations of their connections to the foundation and frame.

Additionally, the valve's self - expanding frame enables physicians to deliver the device in a controlled manner, allowing for accurate placement.

Pollino's modeling suggests optimal sizes for two key components of rocking steel - based frames: viscous damping devices, which are akin to shock absorbers, and steel - yielding devices, which have been likened to electrical fuses because they limit the amount of force transferred to the rest of the structure.

He gets off on the wrong foot from the get - go by opting for a faux - documentary framing device that has his characters» present - day incarnations speaking directly to the camera.

This, with variations, is a tried - and - true plot device, but juxtaposing Sidney's disorientation with her new vision and the things for which normally sighted people have no frame of reference is a nice twist.

In an unnecessary and unenlightening framing device, Berge speaks directly to the late Saint Laurent as the couple's extensive art collection is being boxed up for auction.

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.

Taking over for Davis Guggenheim, the directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk largely abandon the framing device of Gore's lecture (which he and his international team of trainees continue to give regularly) in favor of a nimbler, more on - the - go approach.

Scheherazade, as in the folk tales, is both character and framing device, doomed to tell stories for a thousand and one nights in order to postpone her execution at the hands of her husband the king.

For some reason, the V / H / S series persists in using a framing device that is, on its own, one of its shorts.

Instead, Miles Ahead uses a framing device that presents its story as if it's a piece of music that Miles is playing for Rolling Stone reporter Dave Brill (Ewan McGregor).

But Cay's heavy involvement, combined with a framing device that incorporates both Cays, turns Savannah into a dull vanity project for the Southern highborn.

There's a case to be made that the success of a biopic depends almost entirely on the director having studied Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story like a road map of cliché pitfalls to be avoided: Don't lean so hard on formative childhood traumas, watch out for unnecessary framing devices, etc..

For the new film, Osborne («Kung Fu Panda») and screenwriters Irena Brignull («The Boxtrolls») and Bob Persichetti have taken the generally more effective tack of nesting Saint - Exupery's story within an elaborate framing device set in the kind of modular modern metropolis prophesied by Jacques Tati's «Playtime,» full of technology and free of wonder.

For the most part, Oppenheim's script focuses on Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) following the assassination of her husband and President of the United States, John F. Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson), which we experience via a framing device where Jackie tells her side of the story to a journalist (Billy Crudup) about what occurred and what she was feeling at the time.

This is evident immediately from its framing device, a series of interviews that has been the de rigueur device for any number of these sorts of biopics (even

A staunch believer in the power of storytelling, Howard this time surprisingly foregoes establishing memorable characters — don't expect any Niki Lauda «s or John Nash «s here — in order to make room for a familiar but powerful framing device involving Brendan Gleeson's aged Tom Nickerson, the last living survivor of that crew.

Thus reduced in the screenplay to a framing device, the Nathan Zuckerman character is unable to provide adequate context for a...

Using Melville (Ben Whishaw) as part of a framing device — he calls on a survivor played Brendan Gleeson to recall the tale as research for his next book — the film goes out of its way to tell us that «Moby Dick» is probably a better story than the one that will be told here.

A delightful framing device in which garishly illustrated panels from the mag burst into life sets the macabre tone for this exercise in fun and reverential horror.

David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.

While the framing device wasn't exactly revolutionary — documentary - style footage of the conflict between mankind and alien life — the Johannesburgian director's blend of visual panache with hard - hitting themes such as apartheid and political corruption reestablished a healthy pulse for the genre.

Pinks, greens, and yellows become more than just an exciting aesthetic or a gimmick of a framing device: they set the entire tone for the course of the movie.

Though largely faithful, the adaptation's greatest liberty is a framing device that finds Nick composing a confessional account of his time with Gatbsy while being treated for alcoholism at a sanitarium.

As a framing device, it allows del Toro to approach his monster (s) from a place of childlike wonder and tenderness, without having to account for the corrupt inclinations that come with adulthood.

One of the framing devices sees a journalist (Billy Crudup) interviewing her for a magazine article a week removed from the pivotal event, giving the picture a Citizen Kane - ish aspect as it probes the enigma wrapped inside a riddle that is Jacqueline Lee Kennedy née Bouvier, who's something of a stranger to herself.

Players are introduced to VR «s world via a framing device in which a history teacher is discussing the «Liberation War» of a hundred years earlier and the «five traitors» who started it, winding up executed by the government for their troubles.

The film begins with the Stones reacting to a snippet of radio coverage of the incident, which sets the stage for a framing device where the film periodically cuts back to the band watching and reacting to the filmmakers» footage.

Further, it begins to intercut between this framing device and the actual plot of the film for the rest of the runtime (this is something that happens in act one as well, but is gratefully scaled back during the adventure on the dinghy itself).

The arrest is used as primarily a framing device to allow for narration and, ultimately, the tragic ending of Turing's life.

That question of identity is further complicated, though never interestingly elucidated, by the film's final act, which returns us to the framing device and charts Bordán's frustrations with the shoot and with Levy's aggressive insistence that the actress share her character's feelings for her director / co-star.

It is a notably unsettled experience for the audience, as director Robert Greene chooses to anchor the film on a sort of framing device, opening the film on Kate in wardrobe on the day she will shoot her climactic scene, and then constantly revisiting it as she builds her character.

Joseph may not be a terribly substantial work for the stage, but as seen in this film version — whose school assembly framing device nicely evokes the show's origins as a 15 - minute school performance piece — it's awfully fun.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.