Sentences with phrase «narrative fiction into»

What is it: Hooked turns narrative fiction into bite - size stories that look more like text message conversations.

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may I recommend... the trilogy that is written as fiction... but allows you to eneter into a narrative taht discusses these huge, important topics?

This is fiction that challenges, that takes risks, that dares to bring dollops of strangeness into an ostensibly everyday narrative, that forces the reader to re-evaluate his or her perception of «reality», to question values and beliefs whether scientific, religious, philosophical, psychological, sociological or whatever.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Sometimes, building a strong narrative with believable characters can be enough to transport you into the fiction and help the viewer empathize with the characters» plight.

Where so many docs are content to fit into simple categories, often attempting to mimic the narrative formulas of fiction films, Stories We Tell embraces the form and then reaches beyond its usual confines.

Berg, making her fiction debut, and her director of photography, Rob Hardy, push Every Secret Thing into the overcast dimness that has become a color - palette requirement for cinematic narratives in which loved ones get murdered or go missing.

Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.

If your book fits into one of the following book genres (fiction, memoir, or narrative nonfiction) you should write two different versions of your book synopsis for literary agents.

When so many fiction writers crowd their stories and novels with hundreds of characters and thousands of extraneous details, it's calming to settle into Lynch's rich, tightly focused narratives... The old and the new, the living and the dead: this collection of short stories is a trove of carefully observed lives.

Besides Kunzru, Haruki Murakami clearly falls into this category (especially his 1Q84, 2011), as does Nick Harkaway (in Angelmaker, 2012), but David Mitchell also deserves a seat at the head of the translit table, and his new book, The Bone Clocks, just may become the quintessential example of translit fiction, not only in its complexity and thematic richness, but also in the remarkable narrative propulsion that drives its many - cylindered engine.

Best known for her work on the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (read our interview with her on the books here), she's now making her second foray into adult fiction after The Last Summer (of You and Me), your basic first - novel narrative of love and friendship.

To become effective flash fictions, such pieces must be transmuted, must undergo the alchemy that turns basic narratives into the golden weave of fiction.

Adam: I've always been attracted to narrative in my work, as well as hardcore research, which I've also tried to incorporate into my fiction.

Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom.

A few of their authors have turned into celebrities and have their fan - fiction and narratives optioned for movies.

TOP PICK IN MYSTERY If we translated our day - to - day experiences into fiction, the many converging plotlines would rarely fit into a coherent A-to-B narrative.

In his first book for young adults, Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom.

The king of the blockbuster courtroom thriller has succeeded at stepping into a new genre — short fiction — and created seven rich and enticing narratives.

They borrow tropes and narrative tricks from science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more — turning great discoveries into great adventures.

In his first book for young adults, he deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom.

Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities.

Attendees were mesmerized by Mara Purl's program that wove fiction and nonfiction narratives; by Bill Van Orsdel deep dive into...

There will be: Social media — of course; Book marketing — absolutely; Publicity moxie — wouldn't leave it out; Book design — lots; Fiction structure — deep diving into narrative; Book trailers — the so - so, better and best; Amazon savvy — yes indeed; Blunders — critical issues to avoid; Findability — using the Internet town hall to maximize yourself and your book; eBooks — all the latest and how to create easy peasy; Repurposing — a zillion ways; Branding — get your label ready; Influence — to the nth degree!

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.

You can think about how different fictions and narratives can be built into online worlds using procedural generation.

An eponymous new show, opening tomorrow at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, represents the first full North American survey of his practice, exploring Raad's focus on investigations into distinctions between fact and fiction, especially in relation to «the veracity of archives and photographic documents in the public realm [and] the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict».

Inserted into the modern ruins of damaged homes, collapsed infrastructure, and piles of detritus is a free - form narrative — part science fiction, part video game, part real - life experiences like stop - and - frisk interrogations — enacted by members of the self - taught Brooklynbased dance troupe Ringmaster Crew.

He is known for his autobiographical explorations of identity and sexuality that blend fact and fiction into rich, absorbing narratives.

She employs a surfeit of images, incorporates text, and uses feverish editing to alter the normal flow of the narrative, while the presence of her own voice and the direct participation of the viewer — who is pulled into the thick of it and often invited to perform actions — eliminate the conventional distance between cinematic fiction and its audience.

MPVAC investigates the emergence of digitally constructed identities, theoretical fictions, Amerika composts various art personas and classic 20th century artworks into a narrative sequence of mobile phone video images that conjure up both the spirits of the past as well as hauntological actors of the present.

Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers.

One of the YBA generation whose work has recently been shown more in Europe than at home, Starr is a born storyteller who established an early reputation for creating works with complicated and emotional narratives exploring female identity, history fiction and biography which extend into multilayered theatrical events.

Stimulated by existential queries and investigations into what - ifs, each one of his artworks acts as a vessel to tell a new story, all collectively fitting into an overarching narrative where fictions and realities collide.

They also appropriate characters and imagery of comic book illustrators and animators, which Juliano - Villani, composing with two projectors that allow her to build layered narratives from the stuff she has been geeking out over all her life, configures into chaotic tableaux that are part fan fiction, part self - exegesis.

For what narratives are worth, and we all know how much fiction and wishful thinking goes into them, let me venture the following hypothesis, very sketchily: Bram van Velde's work represents a direct result of the philosophical questioning of the consequences of World War II, which would continue and develop from the fifties to the seventies through the works of Simon Hantaï and Supports / Surfaces, among others.

Be it in the video - taped performances where I go into the public to perform comical good - deeds, as seen in Courtesy Moments: After You (part of the ongoing series Art that says Hello), in the literally submerged - narrative of the sculpture, Dig, where fact and fiction fold in on each other and draw the viewer in as well, or in the friendly but lifeless, implicit yet ambiguous purpose of the structure, Head - level Happening.

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents Medium - Based Time by Berlin - based Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw, featuring a black and white 16 mm film of transgender voguer Leiomy Maldonado, an HD video installation that reworks archival ethnographic film into a dystopian science fiction narrative,

Group exhbition «Ficções» [«Fictions»] dives into the narrative universe of some of the most remarkable contemporary artists in Brazil, using as starting point the book of the same name Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Themes include narratives exploring identity, as individuals and as communities; as well as truth, fiction, and the unreliability of memory with the resulting exhibition offering a unique nationwide insight into UK art schools today.