Sentences with phrase «of episodic narratives»

With a focus on material legacies of technological shifts and the reorganization of social systems, their exhibition program is approached as a continuous yet non-linear script of episodic narratives.

When one thinks of an Episodic Narrative Adventure, one usually thinks of The Walking Dead Series from Telltale Games.

Heavy Rain as a concept really suits this type of episodic narrative IMO...

Meanwhile, Telltale Games has carved out a niche as a specialist developer of episodic narrative dramas, based around well - known TV and game brands.

Not exact matches

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

If the Jacob narratives appear to be somewhat better knit than the more episodic Abraham cycle, it is nevertheless clear that neither one has the integration of the Tale of Joseph.

Because the narrative is so episodic, it's very easy to remember Volume 2 (like its predecessor) as nothing more than a collection of bits.

It's just as clear, however, that the film's incongruously languid pace stands as an almost insurmountable obstacle virtually from the get - go, as filmmakers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have employed an episodic structure that becomes more and more problematic as the thin narrative unfolds - with the ongoing emphasis on subplots of a decidedly underwhelming nature (eg Jim's continuing efforts at resisting the advances of a sultry neighbor) compounding the movie's increasingly lackluster atmosphere.

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).

Su Rynard's feature, with its episodic overview of various interconnected issues around the globe, lacks the unifying emotional and narrative involvement of the best nature documentaries.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

Many critics felt that, due to lack of genuine conviction, Spielberg failed to give Walker's folk tale a narrative drive or emotional push, resulting in an overly fractured saga, devoid of the pop - folk religiosity that served as the glue that held the episodic book together.

and a relentlessly episodic narrative - with, in terms of the latter, the ratio of compelling to pointless sequences aggressively low.

But the narrative proves too episodic, and when you move into the final section — with all of its digressions — it just grows stale.

The festival showcases feature narratives, feature documentaries, a slew of short categories and even episodic, but I mostly love to go for the documentaries.

The episodic narrative that follows, in which Johnny explores his gifts, investigating incidents of escalating significance, is really just a vehicle for Cronenberg to mine his fascination with bodily horror, with a deadpan approach to violence that occasionally erupts into spectacle.

His two follow - up films, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower are as well, but where the former luxuriates in the irrational melodrama of tragic romance and the latter is consumed by the emptiness at the heart of its own baroque decadence, there's a reticence to Hero, a by - product of its episodic structure, narrative instability and potentially repellent politics.

The narrative of «The Equalizer» is very episodic.

The relationship between these two old fighters with a shared violent past recedes into the background of the largely episodic narrative; among the twisted reflections they encounter are a grieving frontierswoman (Rosamund Pike) and a condemned murderer (Ben Foster) who relishes underlining the film's themes.

is the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change, annually producing up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and over 40 hours of digital short form programming through SoulPancake

Participant Media is the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change, annually producing up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and over 40 hours of digital short form programming through SoulPancake.

The episodic narrative meanders through these folkloric scenarios, expanding its impressions of rustic life across a single late - autumn month.

The episodic style, rather than breaking the narrative, punctuates it with the reframing of both idealized and semi-tragic experience.

Some viewers found the star - wattage of the film distracting, and we'll acknowledge that Brad Pitt's late - in - film appearance isn't the most successful, but it can be useful to see familiar faces to delineate a narrative that's decidedly episodic.

Joe begins her episodic narrative through the chapters of her life (literally, with titles that reflect something that pops into her head upon introducing the next part), from her childhood — when she and her best friend writhe on the bathroom floor until they felt something «down there,» with her mother (Connie Nielsen) knowing whatever Joe is doing is «wrong» and her father (Christian Slater) wishing his wife would stop judging their daughter — through young adulthood (Stacy Martin plays the younger version of Joe).

Little in its episodic, low - temperature narrative decisively reaches out and grabs the viewer, with the exception of co-star Emir Kusturica; the award - winning Serbian director plays a KGB operative with dreams of changing the world for his son by spilling Russia's every secret to the West.

The Labs are the centerpiece of the Institute's year - round work with narrative feature filmmakers and are part of 24 residential labs the Institute hosts each year to discover and foster the talent of emerging independent artists in film, theatre, new media and episodic content.

Narrative drive is hardly her strong point - what she achieves in this episodic study of a dirt - poor Glaswegian upbringing is tenderness, lyricism and unpatronising humour, which successfully lifts a story inspired by tragedy into something universally appealing.

Storytellers since the beginning of time have been drawn to episodic narrative.

, which could arise from omnibus collections of 2 - 3 novels of 50 - 70k each as distinct and time - separated parts of a trilogy or simply a bunch in a series; or, are a collection in a continuous narrative as a long story (episodic; serial) as if runs of Homeland or 24 or Marvel Agents of Shield or House of Cards or Breaking Bad were novelised.

These authors face years of learning to craft their episodic writings into narrative — or shelling out a ton of cash hiring an editor to do it for them.

Onslaught delivers four new Call of Duty multiplayer maps, the new «Maverick» dual - purpose Assault Rifle / Sniper Rifle, and the first installment in Extinction's four - part episodic narrative, «Episode 1: Nightfall.»

The writing doesn't really impress so far, delivering a dry slice of narrative that very clearly was never intended to be delivered in episodic form, but the quality of the cinematics and the excellent voice was superb.

Although Telltale has been fighting to keep the episodic adventure genre alive, games are now capable of incorporating both narrative and heavy interactive gameplay in their experiences.

Calum Petrie with five ideas for future Telltale games... Telltale Games has now been pushing out narrative driven episodic games for a number of years, and the source material has always came from an outside property.

Square Enix has announced the release date for the upcoming episodic Life is Strange: Square Enix and DONTNOD Entertainment today announced the release date of the brand new, episodic, narrative driven adventure game LIFE IS STRANGE ™ that is coming to the PlayStation ® 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all - in - one games Read More...

Square Enix and DONTNOD Entertainment today announced the release date of the brand new, episodic, narrative driven adventure game LIFE IS STRANGE ™ that is coming to the PlayStation ® 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all - in - one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation ® 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC.

Square Enix and Dontnod Entertainment have announced the release date pricing of the upcoming narrative driven, episodic adventure game Life is Strange, alongside a new trailer giving us a brief glimpse at the time travel aspects the series will feature.

It featured a strong narrative backed by impressive gameplay and the use of the episodic style worked very well for it.

The Call of Duty ®: Ghosts DLC season closes out with Nemesis, which introduces four new multiplayer maps, each featuring a unique Field Order, and includes the fourth and final entry, and epic conclusion to Extinction's episodic narrative with «Episode 4: Exodus.»

Closing out Call of Duty: Ghosts final DLC Pack is the dramatic conclusion to the game's episodic Extinction narrative.

The game is called Quantum Break and appears to continue the episodic narrative style of Alan Wake, but in a brand new intellectual property.

The next episode of The Council, an episodic narrative adventure series about aristocrats and secret societies, is coming out next Thursday on May 17th but players who've purchased the game's season pass can get it two days earlier on the 15th.

While the increased stake in the share capital of Kylotonn Racing guaranteed Bigben a strong position in racing simulation games, the acquisition of Cyanide studio will allow the Group to extend its offer to major gaming genres not yet present in its current portfolio (strategic and tactical games, narrative and episodic games, shooting games, management games) or complementary to its catalogue (sport simulations and action - adventure games), thus strengthening its publishing strategy.

The episodic adventure plays out over the course of five episodes where choices are central to the narrative.

Supported by strong writing and an unforgettable cast of characters, Life is Strange raised the bar for episodic narrative adventures.

The Wolf Among Us is an episodic narrative driven game that is based on Vertigo's Fables, which detail the lives of various fairy tale characters that have left their realm and have started fresh lives in New York City.

New type of action game — Asura's Wrath will seamlessly blend action and narrative and will adopt an episodic nature, more akin to a TV drama series.

Known for irreverent riffs on the art historical «muse,» William Villalongo has made episodic paintings and works on paper, which underscore historical erasure and master narratives of desire.

The exhibition loosely traces the narrative of the epic (and episodic) tale with each of the three galleries dedicated to the story's protagonists, Ishmeal, Ahab, and of course, the White Whale, Moby Dick.