Sentences with phrase «narrative conventions in»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesses.

When absence would be too conspicuous or odd, like at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Cuomo danced along a line of fulfilling obligations without letting himself slide into narratives of 2016 ambition.

The exact narrative a gubernatorial opponent would want to draft is that Albany remains broken under a two - term incumbent; this past weekend, potential Cuomo challenger Chris Gibson said in a radio interview with Bill Samuels that he supports a convention because «we clearly need reform in this state.»

After he defeated Teachout at the Working Families Party convention in May, Cuomo had a brusque assessment of the drawn - out process and those who claimed damage to his narrative or brand.

In 2012, he went to the Democratic convention in Charlotte but stayed as far from the spotlight as possible, actively working to discourage the narrative of Cuomo the 2016 contendeIn 2012, he went to the Democratic convention in Charlotte but stayed as far from the spotlight as possible, actively working to discourage the narrative of Cuomo the 2016 contendein Charlotte but stayed as far from the spotlight as possible, actively working to discourage the narrative of Cuomo the 2016 contender.

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.

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».

The fact that the film can mock the conventions of its sister X-Men movies in one breath and exploit the worst narrative crutches of comics in another (look up «Women in Refrigerators» afterward, if you want to have a really bad day) indicates the film is inherently conflicted with itself.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

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.

In You Disappear, Fog breaks with Hollywood convention and gives us a challenging narrative, opting for a scientific framework to reflect upon the...

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.

It's also one of the oddest movies I have seen in a while, both adopting the conventions of its genre and completely ignoring them, refusing to follow narrative expectations.

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.

Leaving the language barrier aside, the accessible story is communicated clearly and briskly, with plenty of vivid, unambiguous character work; its pert challenges to dominant conventions lie in the realm of representation, not narrative or patience.

The series redefined where narrative and stylistic convention could go to in anime — it was dark, it was cool, it was definitely not for kids!

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.

The concepts covered are: * Camera techniques * Audio techniques * Editing techniques * Mise - en - scene codes * Narrative structure * Genre conventions * Representation * Ideologies * Cultural Spheres and Universes * Institutional Techniques * Audiences models and theories * A wide range of media theories broken into contextual areas into sociological and political This is vital tool in the lead up to the exam period, where it can be used as a revision guide for key concept development, and as a compliment to other units you are teaching.

The idea of «fundamental British values» feeds into broader narratives of «Britishness» which played a significant role in the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union and Conservatives» call for a British Bill of Rights to replace the protection offered by the European Convention on Human Rights, under the Human Rights Act.

She is also a deft storyteller; many readers will be floored by an unexpected narrative twist in the middle of the novel that upends the conventions of plot structure and adds depth to the second half of the book — a welcome, if initially unsettling, surprise.

My first collection of stories, Faith, consisted of fourteen stories that fell within the 3500 - 6000 word length and, at least structurally, obeyed most of the conventions the fiction writing texts of the time recommended, as each narrative hinges upon a protagonist in a vividly rendered place who faces a conflict and makes a discovery.

However, Dishonored 2 manages to be excellent in spite of its disappointing antagonist and a narrative that often falls back on video game storytelling conventions.

Now to get me to play a JRPG it has to be doing something really formally ambitious (like Live - A-Live), be an undisputed classic that I never got around to (like when I played Chrono Trigger in college), or have such a strong tone and artistic and narrative direction that it transcends its mechanical JRPG conventions (the Mother series does this for me — Ni No Kuni might).

In 2010, for Location One Gallery in New York, Saro - Wiwa produced and co-curated the group exhibition Sharon Stone in Abuja, which explored the narrative and visual conventions of the Nigerian «Nollywood» video - film industry through Saro - Wiwa's video installations and works by Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, Andrew Esiebo and Pieter HugIn 2010, for Location One Gallery in New York, Saro - Wiwa produced and co-curated the group exhibition Sharon Stone in Abuja, which explored the narrative and visual conventions of the Nigerian «Nollywood» video - film industry through Saro - Wiwa's video installations and works by Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, Andrew Esiebo and Pieter Hugin New York, Saro - Wiwa produced and co-curated the group exhibition Sharon Stone in Abuja, which explored the narrative and visual conventions of the Nigerian «Nollywood» video - film industry through Saro - Wiwa's video installations and works by Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, Andrew Esiebo and Pieter Hugin Abuja, which explored the narrative and visual conventions of the Nigerian «Nollywood» video - film industry through Saro - Wiwa's video installations and works by Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, Andrew Esiebo and Pieter Hugo.

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.»

The cogency of Omer Fast's works lies particularly in the refusal to transform experiences into consumable narratives in accordance with the conventions of historical reconstruction.

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.

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.

One compact definition offered is that while post-modernism acts in rejection of modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, and to eradicate the boundaries between high and low forms of art, to disrupt genre and its conventions with collision, collage and fragmentation.

Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.

Exploring the conventions and rhetoric of the images in the mass media, operating both on the gallery wall and the printed page in poster, book and magazine form, Burgin revels in straddling the boundaries between «visual art» and «theory», «image» and «narrative», in a way that makes reader and text interact, work together and create constant and engaged dialogue.

In his work he often combines elements of reality with fiction, reassessing historical and narrative conventions and questioning systems of knowledge and interpretation.

Working primarily in performance, moving image, and printed matter, Howden - Chapman's work analyzes language and images as means to investigate the confluence of social conventions and personal narratives that underlie economic, ecological, and cultural change.

Rooted in the literary - with particular nods to the conventions of horror and romance - and yet aborted from traditional narratives, his work seeks to explore the corporeal and tactile through high spec digital technologies, highlighting their deadness and flatness as jarring against the human story.

In my most recent solo show there were paintings that could fall into a range of visual conventions - from portraits, to still lives, to studio interiors, and allegorical narratives and of all sizes.

The 40 - minute work explores loss and grief as much as the narrative constructions of fiction and the cinematic conventions used in documentary films.

She often explores gender issues and historical narratives, reinterpreting them in a way that upsets convention.

Simon Fujiwara The Humanizer 20 May — 28 August 2016 Berlin based, British / Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara's new project «The Humanizer» places Roger Casement's extraordinary biography at the core of an imagined new Hollywood biopic that takes the life of the compelling yet baffling figure of Roger Casement through the conventions of the Hollywood narrative machine, exposing our modern day desire for the perfect Hollywood hero in an age where everyone is somebody.

Devendra's performance will expand upon Aitken's use of sound to both suggest and deconstruct narrative flow in his multichannel video installations, simultaneously building and interrupting the codes and conventions of storytelling.