Sentences with phrase «of narrative fiction»

This innovative and fresh approach to storytelling generated interest in the relatively new art of narrative fiction.

Miguel's current literary writing explores the possibilities of narrative fiction and examines the complexities of a Third World society involved in reckless decay and hopeful progress.

If we now examine the dynamics of that process, we shall see that they can be clarified by application of concepts used in criticism of narrative fiction.

Not exact matches

When it comes to technology and innovation, reality seems to be constantly playing catch - up to the visions of the world that are painted in science fiction narratives.

= > no fiction book ever says that I pointed out the text analysis that person did to juxtapose it with the authenticity of the biblical narrative.

Crane's concept of plot can be adapted for historical narratives and for historical events if we make the transition from «people - centered» fiction to «event - centered» accounts of the past.

It contains truth and fiction written in very lively narrative form reflecting both theology of the East Syrian church and the history of the origins of Christianity in India.

Later he argued that we know almost nothing about the historical Jesus apart from the gospel story and that «it is precisely the fiction - like quality of the whole narrative» of Jesus» passion and resurrection that makes his identity present to us.

As for the postliberal claim to eschew the experiential subjectivism of liberal theology, Henry charged that in elevating narrative over factuality, narrative theology becomes unable to distinguish truth from error or fact from fiction.

’14 Parables about God, in this view, are narratives offering a kind of imaginative model which, like Braithwaite's scientific models, have the status of psychologically helpful fictions.

For him, the Bible's story of the world's history and destiny is a narrative fiction that has lost its credibility and usefulness in late modernity.

This made me curious: Labour are only polling a couple of points behind the Tories, so is the «Corbyn is a vote loser» line actually true, or does this narrative continue to be a fiction created by centrist and right wing media and politicians to undermine the new Labour leader?

Writing this kind of multiple narrative is a challenge, and one that science fiction author Hannu Rajaniemi has tackled with technologist Samuel Halliday for an e-book project called Neurofiction.

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.

Which gives rise to plenty of eye - roll - worthy moments — but also allows the show to successfully deliver the philosophical sugar rush that has made time travel one of the most persistent fiction narratives in history.

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

Despite a narrative structure that counteracts many of the horror elements, and an alien world that won't play by its own rules, «Annihilation» still presents noteworthy production design, eerily escalating tension, and intriguing science - fiction notions that all but demand post-viewing discussion.

As every story becomes interwoven with the next, the boundaries between fiction and real life starts to blend in this cerebral thriller pushes the limits of cinema narrative.

Plus, this emotionally grounded adaptation of the science - fiction novel by Robert O'Brien showcases complex performances by three established stars that help to compensate for some thin plotting and narrative contrivances.

In order to qualify as an international narrative feature film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction, and more than half of the project's financing must originate from outside of the United States.

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.

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- Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly «Delivers the narrative propulsion and satisfaction of a first - rate fiction thriller» - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune «Jaw dropping.

The dual narrative that searches for parallels in Travers» upbringing, her fantastical fiction, and her resistance to filmmaker ideas is the weakest aspect of the film.

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.

The criss - crossed film narrative is in a state of overuse, but writer - director James DeMonaco's droll, modestly stylish crime gewgaw «Staten Island» wrings a few suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time - bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction») and Sidney Lumet («Before the Devil Knows You're Dead») among scores of others.

A chase film with tinges of science fiction in the margins, this is a thriller that does not burden its audience or overcomplicate its narrative with extraneous exposition, allowing you as the viewer to piece many of its mysteries together yourself.

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.

There's plenty of commentary here surrounding the prevalence of cyborgs in Revengeance's fiction — eventually Raiden is forced to acknowledge that most of the enemies he kills, while enhanced by robotic technology, are still human — and the narrative takes some surprisingly dark turns.

Ernest Cline, author of bestselling science fiction novel Ready Player One, is undoubtedly even more pumped than your average writer, given that a large chunk of his narrative is given over to his Spielberg - fueled»80s obsession.

American Animals is Layton's narrative debut, but it similarly tracks a stranger - than - fiction tale of four young men who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history.

With its wonderfully constrained narrative and stunning vision of a future society in decay, Dredd is a violent and blisteringly compelling piece of dark science fiction.

With the arrival of Quentin Tarantino in the early 90's and his films «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction ``, it became cool again, to deliver films in different time frames and to manipulate the chronology of the narrative.

Gone are the days of forward - moving plotting, character build - up, and narrative cohesion — the building blocks of nearly all great works of fiction.

Creating a docudrama allows for certain narrative leeway, and if you're not going to use that flexibility to craft an engrossing piece of based - on - a-true-story fiction, why bother telling the story at all?

It's also more classically well composed than 99 % of conventional narrative fiction — in fact, a common (and correct) observation is that the story couldn't have been any more interesting or dynamic had it been fabricated from nothing.

A mess of early CGI, noisy silliness and bizarre science fiction musings, both films leave narrative logic and effective atmosphere at the door, with their camp pleasures very much a matter of diminishing returns across their mercifully brief runtimes.

Both movies employ a unique docu - fiction style, both Chloe Zhao and Valeski Grisebach cast actors to play versions of themselves and constructed narratives loosely based on their lives — and neither movie relied on a traditional screenplay.

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.

Program Description: Designed to support distinctive new voices in world cinema working in both fiction narrative and documentary, the Open Borders Fellowship includes a development grant as well as a trip to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to receive the award and attend a curated slate of industry meetings, networking opportunities, panels, and screenings.

Jacques Rivette's dazzling 750 - minute Out 1 (1971)-- an eight - part serial in 16 - millimeter still unscreened in this country that remains one of the boldest experiments in film narrative ever attempted — was conceived as a kind of parody of Bazin's ideas in its deft mixture of documentary and fiction, its improvising actors working through a dense plot built around real and imagined conspiracies, and even its extended takes, one of which lasts 45 minutes as it records a theater group's exercise.

A smart and casually brilliant work of fiction, the author's characters exude a demand for understanding and compassion above all else in a narrative flow that is forgivably meandering.

Perhaps neither was quite suited for this material as Berg's skill with non-fiction doesn't translate to her first narrative film and Holofcener's gifts with character are smothered by the twisting and turning requirements of airport bookstore thriller fiction.

Bong is known for directing monster movie «The Host» but he also essayed the wildly fascinating true - life mystery «Memories Of Murder,» and setting himself up for an ambitious science - fiction narrative is a major step up to the big leagues.

CinemaBlend.com — Director Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya is very upfront about the weird and contradictory nature of the true story behind its narrative — but it also features no shortage of «stranger than fiction» moments.

Baker picked up on Bigelow's idea of a fact / fiction hybrid by adding, «It's the cinema that I'm really finding the most fascinating right now and the most interesting, where that line is blurred between narrative fiction filmmaking and documentary - style filmmaking.»

Escape From Los Angeles (1996), Vampires (1998) and Ghosts From Mars (2001) are horror and science fiction films, but at their core they encompass the narrative construction and mythological structure of the westerns directed by John Ford, Sergio Leone and his much admired Howard Hawks.

OKO ASHEWO A Nigerian sandwich of Pulp Fiction and Taxi Driver suffers from some dodgy narrative choices and pacing issues, but knocks out some compelling footage of a taxi cruising around Lagos (with a Gandalf The Grey hood ornament).

With «Stories We Tell,» which evades both the pitfalls of overly personal filmmaking and those of fiction - documentary hybrids — not to mention the philosophical trap of making a film «about narrative» instead of simply telling a story — Polley has delivered the first masterpiece of what promises to be an important career.