Sentences with phrase «narrative focus after»

Many authors, after finishing the proposal, end up changing their angle, perspective, or narrative focus after better understanding what will sell in book form.

Not exact matches

The episodic bent of the film's first half - much of the narrative seems to follow the central characters as they fight one fire after another - does test the viewer's patience to a fairly demonstrable degree, and it's clear that Backdraft, by and large, works best when focused on the rivalry and relationship between the central figures (and how it ultimately affects their respective work).

Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

But after a pacy early scene in which courier Lara leads a wild bike chase through East London, the action reverts to the tried - and - true as the narrative focuses once again on tomb raiding, ruthless mercenaries, mad races through the jungle, much hanging from precipices, secret chambers being penetrated and dormant curses being unleashed after two thousand years.

It should come as no surprise that, after decades of films focused on female protagonists whose survival might have an unsavory relationship to her sexuality or whose demise involves sickly imaginative levels of torture, women want to wrest control of genre narratives.

After years spent struggling with this beast of a story, I was suddenly dealing with a focused and fast - paced narrative that had a clear theme and a nice sense of rhythm and harmony.

SHARED DESTINYA collection of interconnected narratives, Julie Otsuka's richly imagined novel, The Buddha in the Attic, focuses on a group of Japanese women who come to California after World War I as «picture brides» to marry men they've never met.

Connecting all this together is a narrative focused on building order after a virus spread on Black Friday has devastated New York City.

These artefacts are not the primary focus of the game narrative and their religious, social and cultural significance is rarely given a second thought after they're acquired.

For newcomers in Divinity: Original Sin II, Bandai Namco included a Story Mode, which focuses on the game's narrative rather than on combat, which is suitable for new players who are trying out the game for the first time, or for players who are only after the story.

Things that matched up were notes like a protagonist carrying the fate of the world on their shoulders, narratives that focus on a lost past, combat focused around a bow and arrow, the ongoing collection of resources, loot dropping after an enemy is killed, each game taking roughly six years to make and more.

Albertz Benda is pleased to present After the Orgies: Bill Beckley, The Eighties, the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery focusing on works from the 1980s, following Albertz Benda's 2015 inaugural show of early conceptual narrative artworks dating from 1968 - 1978.

Upon completing her Curatorial Masters at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, she was awarded a two - year Fellowship for Cultural Innovation and most recently worked as a Robert Bosch fellow, with a focus on Tirana and South Eastern Europe and «art after the end of the grand narratives».

After the passing of the nation's longest - serving senator, the obituaries have been generally focusing on a similar narrative: That Robert Byrd (D - WV) was a man of transformations.

As we try to figure out how to reverse this defeat, films like Flow will help inform public consciousness of the need to do so.But as is the case after seeing many (perhaps too many, of late) environmental documentaries, I also wished that the film had had fewer talking heads (especially white male radically professorial ones — and I say that as a white male radical former professor), less of an impulse to be comprehensive (when you try for the universal all the time, you often lose the specific), and more of a narrative focus on particular responses (successful or not) to particular challenges.

Rarely does the narrative focus on all the work that goes into a partnership after the excitement and passion dissipate.