Sentences with phrase «narrative device in»

Now I'm looking at the greenhouses [at Wave Hill] as a human - plant - technological system, using the structures of the greenhouse and the relationship humans have to maintaining plants, as a narrative device in sculpture.

And more impressively, the journey itself was the only narrative device in the game.

They both know it, and it forms the basis of the Junior Jedi Psychic Hotline that is the most interesting narrative device in Rian Johnson's competent next entry in the Star Wars saga.

While it's clear in many games that there's a core gameplay loop that the game was built around, and you'll often see that loop reused over and over again, A Way Out is built around the story and these gameplay settings feel like narrative devices in hindsight.

The film is a surrealist combination of Hitchcock's trademark cameos, in this case by doppelgängers of the famous director, as well as Grimonprez's first reference to Hitchock's The Birds and the actress Tippi Hedren, all critical narrative devices in his subsequent full - length feature Double Take.

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The iPhone X has been Apple's top selling device every week since it came out last fall and was the best selling phone model in China, Cook noted multiple times on the call, as he sought to combat the negative narrative some analysts were pushing.

With millennials consuming more and more of their media through mobile devices and social platforms, executives at Indigenous Media bet that Snapchat users would warm quickly to the idea of following a narrative story posted in regular installments to social media, as opposed to the traditional theatrical experience.

Back in September, Twitter (finally) announced that all users would be able to create their own Moments, Twitter's narrative - style «storytelling by tweet» device -LSB-...]

In the past, poets had a much wider array of devices to shape their poems and delight attentive readers: argument, narrative, allegory, extended metaphor, metaphysical conceit, to name a few.

In a catalog I recently edited of devices and instruments for congregational research, only a small minority of the hundred or so entries is designed to explore a congregation's narrative identity.20 Most doctor of ministry programs continue the tradition: perusal of the theses and essays these programs produce strongly suggests that projects that employ contextual, mechanist, or organicist methods are more likely to be accepted than those that delve into congregational culture and story.

This show has a lot of traditional narrative devices that do not necessarily play out in traditional narrative ways.

Part of what makes L'Avventura so impressive is that Antonioni developed a cohesion of narrative and stylistic devices that had only haphazardly surfaced in his earlier films.

Oddly enough, none of these devices have the Brechtian alienation effect of taking us out of the action in order to induce critical reflection; rather, they are shortcuts that propel us further into the naturalistic narrative.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

The parallel narratives are a delightful device, and Gwyneth Paltrow, in the most outstanding performance of an already impressive career, dazzlingly displays how wonderfully and subtly she brings characters to life.

Whereas his later gialli tended to cram in more and more bizarre plot devices to make the narratives as incredible as his imagination, Argento was still finding his feet with this movie and it benefits from not being as excessive, not just in the gore and nudity departments but also in the characters.

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

Working with a strategized network narrative — one that stands out from the many in Bordwell's samples, the year 2000 film had appeared as less all - encompassing and oddly mapped out, but after the screening I felt that device was no less disciplined as it engages the viewer by revealing some information, dispelling some, while omitting others — those countless fades to black are welcome beats for analysis.

Amnesia is one of those old go - to tropes in gaming: an oft - used narrative device, conveniently paving the way for some nice scene - setting while also justifying drawn - out tutorials.

We haven't even mentioned the narrative device used to tell the story of «Moby Dick» s inception, as the author of that classic American epic, Herman Melville, is himself too a character in Howard's whale tale.

The Kubruckian overtones of Interstellar make it an intriguing fit for Chris Nolan's storytelling style and mise - en - scène (re: visual composition); plus, wormholes present an obvious narrative device for jumping around in time (as he's inclined to do, regardless).

In a nice touch, he uses the latter - day testimony of Bulger's old partners as an effective narrative device: the feeble revenge of underlings grizzled, used, arrested, utterly spent.

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.

This is the kind of storytelling and getting into a world and the reality that you can achieve by following a story over time and just telling it in a way that uses the same storytelling devices that a narrative feature would use.

But in Nightwatching this is not merely a stylistic device but intrinsic to the narrative, which is concerned with the creation, interpretation and impact of Rembrandt's famously theatrical Night Watch painting.

In a tonally bizarre framing device that never feels right, the film uses John Holmstrom (Josh Zuckerman), founder of Punk Magazine, as the audience proxy into the venue's happenings, and it also uses his publication's cartoonish aesthetic as narrative punctuation.

Price similarly functions as a narrative device (a Terminator-esque threat meant to keep Neeson and Kinnaman running), but even in a mostly wordless performance, Common manages to make the hitman an interesting and frightening figure.

I still think De Palma is far more advanced than most of his followers in the sophistication of his filmmaking and the ingeniousness with which he renders his films as devices, narratives, an artist's artefacts, and commentaries on the audience's own viewership.

A leading theory for the un-killing of these Avengers is linked to some sort of time reversal; the kind of narrative device that's a common refrain in comic book story lines.

But it has also been criticized for a perceived tone - deafness toward racism and / or absolving racism through Sam Rockwell's bigoted cop character, as well as relegating the realities of racism in America to background fodder and narrative devices, rather than in - depth explorations.

Their courtship is sprinkled with largely unfulfilling side flings, and when it's time for the narrative to hurry up, Lainey reveals that she's been accepted to med school out of town, one of the oldest ticking - clock devices in the book — and one of several screenwriterly methods used to engineer the various separations and reunions that pave the way for the inevitable happy ending.

Gomes pulls out every storytelling trick in the book: prologues and epilogues, prolix voiceovers and copious on - screen titles, nested narratives and off - kilter framing devices.

Created for A-Level students and includes the following key information in an easy to understand, but high level presentation: The narrative with key quotations from each section of the text; Poetic devices; Structure of the text and significance; Links to the Canterbury Tales as a whole and literary context; Settings and explanations; The Franklin and how he is significant in telling this tale; Genre and the Breton Lay; What some of the key critics say about The Franklin's Tale; Notes on Kittredge and the marriage group of tales.

Their narrative skills were sharpened, along with logic and critical thinking, and they got first hand experience in how computer devices are programmed.

Original in the best sense of the word, with at least one narrative device I don't think I've seen before.

Projects like Wattpad prove that for many readers dividing a longer narrative into easily digested chunks (usually on a mobile device) is a fun way to follow a story, not so unlike the serial approach employed by Dickens et al. starting in 1836.

At the risk of demystifying the novel, the use of reincarnation was initially a narrative device; a way of structuring and bringing together all of my separate research interests in China past and present.

Creative nonfiction employs literary devices, techniques, and elements of style more commonly associated with fiction to create a factually accurate nonfiction narrative that reads in a vivid and compelling way.

If (there could be some debate over this) the holy grail of digital written narrative is subscription - based serials delivered directly from the writer to the reader's ereading device of choice at the reader's convenience, then there are three critical hurdles to overcome in achieving the grail.

He uses the narrative device of a fictitious church leadership team to illustrate his points in an engaging manner and offers us a professional book, for male and female leaders, written at a trade level.

Matthew Cavnar, VP of business development at Vook, stated in the press release: «The New York Times produces some of the best journalism in the world, and e-books are the perfect way to curate and collect great reporting and commentary into compelling long - form narratives, easily accessible by readers on mobile devices and e-readers.

Over the course of this series Nath Jones's writing style develops from the raw, associative, tyrannic rambles of cathartic non-fiction, flash fiction, and rant in The War is Language and our digital domains, to the delightful rough - hewn vignettes of 2000 Deciduous Trees, into the compact characterizations of the fictionalized tellings in Love & Darts, and finally toward How to Cherish the Grief - Stricken's fully - crafted short stories that use literary devices and narrative elements to reveal a world well - rendered.

But comments on the piece indicate a frustration with the widely shared unwillingness to say that a yarn told on an electronic device is every bit as good in terms of narrative technique and potential as one told on paper.

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Please join me for our next video in which we will continue our discussion of the Women as Background Decoration trope by examining the growing trend of exploiting sexual violence as a plot device in game narratives.

In 1939, Isaac Asimov began writing about the Positronic Brain, a reoccurring narrative device which endowed machines with human - like sentience.

Everything after «The Big Twist» in Bioshock: Bioshock is a great game that expertly builds its world and narrative through various gameplay and storytelling devices.

The meta - game of Final Fantasy characters as marketing devices is allowed to invade their in - game narrative reality.

«We're used to thinking about consequences in games as being win - states and fail - states,» says Elliott, «or as narrative branching devices.