Sentences with phrase «narrative devices used»

Richardson is fascinated by the ways we connect with landscape; within her deeply layered practice, she draws on narrative devices used in science fiction and B - movie horror films, as well as nineteenth - century landscape painting, with particular interest in the apocalyptic conjurings of John Martin (British, 1789 - 1854).

Again, good narrative devices used by Boyle.

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.

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It harks back to Martin Scorsese's New York nightmare Taxi Driver by using a journal as a narrative device.

From the use of the framing device, insertions of historical footage and animated interludes, to the staging and blocking of the murder scenes, everything serves a purpose that helps build a narrative that's at once lucid and unspeakably nightmarish.

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.

Haneke has no use for the usual grab - bag of worn out narrative devices.

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.

If the revealing of twists through repeating what we have already seen through a new lens sounds like a passé plot device, The Handmaiden «s use of that narrative structure is so precise and absorbing to convince you otherwise.

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.

Each also uses a different framing device, letting DICE experiment with narrative styles.

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.

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.

The use of flashbacks, too, far from being a cheap narrative device, serve to enrich and heighten earlier scenes marked by either cruel acts or startling revelations.

Buschel's narrative device of using therapy sessions can feed his bad habit for expository dialogue, but «The Phenom» gets incredible depth from Simmons» major performance.

The film presents that journey as a series of false starts (An episode with three very talkative and very, very dense trolls is a highlight and offers the first instance of a few dei ex machina within the story; Tolkien, obviously aware of his proclivity for using the device, invented a new word — eucatastrophe — as a substitute), and it's not until the company leaves Rivendell that the narrative finds its footing and emotional center.

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.

For an 11th - grade narrative unit, I asked students to analyze classic narrative essays such as George Orwell's «Shooting an Elephant» and Amy Tan's «Mother Tongue» using the traditional plot diagram and paying attention to literary narrative devices.

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.

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.

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.

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Use a text editor to create text strings for NPCs or other narrative devices your game might have.

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

Two things simultaneously alienated theatregoers and absorbed theatre critics: the starkness of Welles's stage direction and the innovative use of mise en abyme as a narrative device.

This common aesthetic tends to be highly narrative, and draws on postmodern devices such as the use of the readymade and strategies of appropriation.

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.

Foregrounding their conditions of presentation, ownership, reception, and provenance, artworks, artifacts, and their passage through time and narrative discourses are played off the figure of the cloud chamber — an early twentieth century device that used water vapor to mark the movement of subatomic particles, and which laid the ground for the study of particle physics by photographing the patterns these movements produced.

The exhibition brings together artistic works that present very different historical narratives and, beyond that, different uses to which the camera can be put: as a device for producing matter - of - fact recordings or biographical accounts, for subjective documentation or historical analysis or as a means of capturing the vestigial traces of an action.

Taking advantage of the sound, visual and quasi-filmic qualities of the device, as well as its potential for narrative, each presents their work using an entire carousel of 80 slides which repeats itself after each cycle.

Where as the suspended staged sets, are used by Dahlberg simultaneously as methodology and narrative device.

Curated by Dorothée Dupuis, the exhibition takes inspiration from Joseph Cornell's experimental 1942 film, By Night with Torch and Spear, and Jerez explores the greater narratives promised by technology and the «increasingly schizophrenic relationship between the mass produced devices / images and the bodies that use and consume them».

Dismiss the past when it doesn't conform to the narrative, and embrace it when devices can be used to make the modern record appear unusual and dangerous.

It's a twist on the lifelogging wearable camera, which included devices like the Narrative Clip, and it uses machine learning to key in on certain people and pets of your choosing and only capture them, so you don't miss out on adorable moments.