Sentences with phrase «narrative conventions»

Even memory turns out to be subject to its own narrative conventions, and so the truth of experiences as we having them does not match what we later believe them to have been.

Using armatures in the forms of giants and angels that convey both human and supernatural energies, he abandons standard narrative conventions in favor of an exploration of materials, processes, and structures.

Or perhaps more accurately: he left the cinema of the time — all perverted and gnarled by narrative convention as it was — and headed for uncharted territory.

Film criticism and scholarly studies often rely on narrative conventions and form rather than style however with Godard this is a major neglect.

Instead of breaking narrative convention, The Way He Looks embraces many of the romantic archetypes but makes sure that it's relatable and worthy of rooting for.

Arnold avoids most narrative conventions.

The plot is still based on a subversion of fairy tale tropes, in this case with the bad guys defying narrative convention and wanting their «happily ever after».

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.

Indeed, this is a film that comprehensively challenges traditional narrative conventions.

To bind these themes into a melancholy love story about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) who has a brief affair with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), Mr. Resnais commissioned a screenplay from the writer Marguerite Duras, then one of the emerging stars of the «nouveau roman» movement, which was challenging literary narrative conventions.

Which is odd: Despite being based on a real life, the standard biopic feels freeze - dried, narrative conventions calcifying the subject matter and strangling any spontaneity out of the material.

There is a sense that he is toying with the accoutrements of wealth; dangling narrative conventions in front of our eyes in order to wreak havoc through a devious parlour trick hidden behind them.

It has the same freewheeling energy as «Go,» as well as the emphasis on being unmoored from typical narrative convention.

Writer / director Gerard Johnstone deliberately plays into narrative conventions at first before cleverly revealing he has plenty of tricks up his sleeve: the officer assigned to look over Kylie responds to her claims of paranormal with excitement instead of skepticism (turns out he's an amateur ghost hunter), and Kylie soon learns her mom might be hiding dark secrets about the home's past.

They have been familiarized with basic narrative conventions since the earliest stories they have heard, and this familiarity is reinforced with every movie or sitcom they watch.

Meg solves her friend's dilemma by suggesting she push her car into the river, signaling that even narrative convention in this book can contain a fair dose of surprise.

It's an interesting attempt to tie RPG levelling together with nonlinear narrative conventions, but we're desperate to play it for ourselves now, especially after such a lengthy development cycle — not to mention a release date on the near horizon.

Narrative conventions such as climax, conflict, resolution, and cause and effect were disregarded and dismantled, reflecting the reality of the human condition and the element of chance.

Stories of origin, trauma, and desire mutate into one another, forming blended genres that confound expectations and disrupt narrative conventions.

Utilising techniques like diegetic time - space, subtitling, close - ups, and circular loops, Cytter breaks narrative convention and produces in the viewer a sense of displacement.

The Pyes» artistic output spans photography, film, performance, video, and installation while acknowledging the profound influences of surrealism in film, narrative conventions in painting, 19th and early 20th century portraiture, and conceptual approaches to subject matter.

The greatest films find their way to whatever social or psychological insight through, not outside, these narrative conventions.

Braid pulls the rug out from under players by focusing on the narrative conventions of the genre.

Tarantino movies are so cherished these days that they have become their own form of event movie, and so, the writer / director has seemingly earned the right to do whatever he pleases, narrative conventions be damned.

In this case, it examines the simple, rarely romantic, truths that undergird commitment, upending all manner of aesthetic and narrative conventions in the process.

I admit to a longstanding fondness for the narrative convention of a big talker paired with a silent sufferer; for further research, see Henry Fonda and James Stewart in The Cheyenne Social Club and Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in Fargo.

The sequence is, like so much of the film, a child's fantasy - come - true, and because Ballard keeps the focus on Alec and the tone consistent with his experience (notice how weirdly large and empty the world seems when he returns to America), it works despite the narrative conventions and clichés.

The best of the Mexican studio films, (or perhaps more exactly, the films made for a Mexican audience) are the ones in which Buñuel's personality, interests and wit have freer reign within the constraints of narrative convention.

Borzage tells his story as much through visual metaphor as narrative convention, expressing in images what words can not.

Set in Gillan's own hometown of Inverness, the film uses the tragic history of the Scottish Highlands (which has the highest suicide rate in the U.K.) to spin out an intimate coming of age tale, bolstered by Gillan's dark sense of humor and a firm understanding of how to play with narrative conventions.

That being said, I think it is silly and kind of childish to expect to write a book like Goon Squad, which is idiosyncratic, does not follow a lot of the narrative conventions we've come to expect from contemporary novels, is not straightforward — I think one can't do all that and expect to be loved by everyone.»

This group — ranging from classic Untitled Film Stills of the late 1970s to untitled «prosthetic» works of the 1990s — privileges specific instances in which Sherman adopts or stages — through the collision of multiple photographic, cinematic, and narrative conventions — heightened states of emotional distress and psychological anxiety.

Anne Sherwood Pundyk I love the work of the post-impressionist painter Edouard Manet for both the magic of his paint handling and the way he challenged narrative conventions.

It was written with all the narrative conventions of a work of fiction — and received some defiant votes from our judges — but it was too deeply identified as journalism to be considered for our list.