Sentences with phrase «narrative cinema»

While the medium was being used for propaganda and boosting morale, narrative cinema also got into the act, putting this global event on display either as backdrop or in the foreground.

[18] In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer's hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

Through the montage of fragmentation of different natures, episodes, moments and brief shots, Der siebente Kontinent's first - generation modernist practices challenge the illusionism of classical narrative cinema and refuse the psychological elucidation of characters.

Early in his filmmaking career, Schrader was occupied with exploring the pathological lure of sex and violence in narrative cinema.

I am wary of the Experimenta strand as the films veer away from narrative cinema and towards pure art.

Filmmaker J. Louise Makary, who is currently at 18th Street on a Philadelphia - based Pew Fellowship, makes films that incorporate dance and narrative cinema as critical elements.

However, Lee Marshall of Screen Daily writes, «If narrative cinema is all about the harnessing of character and atmosphere in the service of a strong story, then Matteo Garrone's follow - up to his 2015 Tale of Tales succeeds on every level.»

The 39 Steps is a masterclass in propulsive narrative cinema that even today's so - called blockbuster auteurs should study.

It's as if Carlos Saura were calling the bluff of spectacle - oriented narrative cinema that necessitates excusing its excesses with characters and plotting.

Stroheim's films have a tendency to keep things up in the air, to stretch moments of time to breaking points of dissolution and entropy (within the context of Hollywood narrative cinema).

Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like classic narrative cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.

With a clear sense of story and purpose, the film not only serves as a shot in the arm for independent narrative cinema, but also as a rallying cry for those determined not to see the US go to the dogs.

Brooklyn - based artist Kevin Kelly is most known for his non-linear videos, which weave together narrative cinema and conceptual performance art.

The apparatus theory proposed by Jean - Louis Baudry and Christian Metz posits that spectators in classical narrative cinema are manipulated by the images and, deprived of the ability to critically contemplate the act of viewing, confuse film illusion and reality.

Bujalski takes a sledgehammer to the carefully ordered surfaces and dramatic conventions of narrative cinema, favoring instead an unpredictability in which the crosscurrents of quotidian life collide on the screen in a series of brilliantly alive patterns.

With selections from the agency's Magnum Eye (1991 — 93) and Magnum in Motion (2004 — today) initiatives, the series also investigates the technological and artistic transition from narrative cinema to video, and finally, to contemporary creators operating in a hybrid and online media field.

Born in a region of Austria / Hungary that is now part of Poland, Wilder's story feels like an archetype of the émigré - to - Hollywood experience that shaped so much of the early studio system, and by extension, narrative cinema as we know it.

And yet, as presented through intimate looks at their home and academic lives, their journeys make for riveting entertainment that ultimately did more for many who watch film professionally than the finest forays in narrative cinema.

There's something about the compulsion to spend allowance money mindlessly zapping zombies, beasts and trolls that just doesn't add up to narrative cinema.

SF: It would've also said that narrative cinema can take all kinds of forms.

He works outside of the usual representational approaches that underpin classical narrative cinema and transcends artistic boundaries.

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.

In order to force the spectator to be aware of the cinematic apparatus, Haneke creates a new route, differing at the same time from the classical narrative cinema, which suspends the spectator's awareness, the first - generation modernism of benign reflexivity, characterised by Chantal Akerman's cinema, and the second - generation modernism of aggressive reflexivity, exemplified by Jean - Luc Godard's Le Vent d'Est (1970).

Like protagonist Rick, Malick feels in need of reinvention — a return to the narrative cinema of Badlands, perhaps?

Love: narrative cinema's irrational variable of choice.

It's an epic five hour and 50 minute (two intermissions) hybrid fusion of narrative cinema, documentary, sculpture, live - performance and opera.

Buñuel's film is a comedy about the insanities of modern life, paralleling the themes of Cytter's works in which she conveys the perils and triumphs of contemporary life through alterations in conventions of narrative cinema.

His editing style was described as being «much more in common with musical composition than narrative cinema».

Her work is informed by histories of narrative cinema and experimental film, but more precisely concerned with digital video, and in particular its contemporary heterogeneity as a medium used for navigation, advertising, knowledge organisation as well as cinematic special effects.