Sentences with phrase «generic conventions»

Developed from a dance performance choreographed by Rainer, it plays with generic conventions of melodrama to explore the dilemmas of women struggling to define themselves in relation to masculinist scripts.
In his attempts to evoke the silvery sentimentality and seductive charm of Midnight in Paris, the film becomes a victim of its director's overambition, unable to execute its profusion of generic conventions satisfactorily.
but rather the general oversaturation of FPS's released in the industry; a genre that's known for really highlighting the more generic conventions of video gaming than any other.
A series of current projects are focused on collaborations with several composers / musicians using techniques of improvisation both live and in the studio, to play with certain generic conventions of television production.
is maybe a little over-ambitious in its structure, attempting to combine different modes of storytelling and generic convention to present the case of Dayani Cristal from different angles and perspectives.
By contrast, Scorsese does not play to his movie's generic conventions but against them: this is not a rousing, Hollywood - crafted, Biblical epic with blaring horns and ostentatious «Scope compositions.
With its radically subversive approach to generic conventions, uncompromisingly nihilistic social vision and Vietnam War - inspired political anger, this groundbreaking zombie movie broke the rules and trampled on taboos.
Despite its camply cartoonish Templar villains, and a romantic subplot that seems merely to have been tacked on as a concession to generic convention, «Kingdom of Heaven» is a powerful spiritualist epic that beats Gladiator hands down in the Colosseum of ideas.
Wheatley attributes the success of Caché, which won Haneke the best director award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, to its successful incorporation of counter-cinema and generic conventions to situate the spectator morally.
Similarly, Le Temps du loup (The Time of the Wolf, 2003) incorporates first - generation modernist and generic conventions but fails to integrate second - generation modernist reflexivity into the cine - televisual medium.
(500) Days of Summer permitted writers Scott Neustadter and Michael G Weber to play with the generic conventions of romantic comedy.
The book's gentle exploration of generic convention is perfect for someone just beginning to explore literature beyond the purely realist.
If you must cut corners and design the cover yourself, I recommend keeping things simple: grab a high quality image from Shutterstock that echoes the generic conventions of your niche and write your book title in an appropriate font.
Mosse said in an interview with The British Journal of Photography «I wanted to export this technology to a harder situation, to up - end the generic conventions of calcified mass - media narratives and challenge the way we're allowed to represent this forgotten conflict... I wanted to confront this military reconnaissance technology, to use it reflexively in order to question the ways in which war photography is constructed.»
In downtown New York venues like Max's Kansas City, prominent art - world personalities encountered radical musicians working within the generic conventions of Rock - n - Roll, such as the New York Dolls, Blondie, Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground.
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