Sentences with phrase «on narrative conventions»

Film criticism and scholarly studies often rely on narrative conventions and form rather than style however with Godard this is a major neglect.

Braid pulls the rug out from under players by focusing on the narrative conventions of the genre.

Not exact matches

Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesses.

Bujalski takes a sledgehammer to the carefully ordered surfaces and dramatic conventions of narrative cinema, favoring instead an unpredictability in which the crosscurrents of quotidian life collide on the screen in a series of brilliantly alive patterns.

One has to question just how formulaic this epic Roman drama is, because the formula was still fresh by the time this film came along, establishing certain tropes that would be shamelessly slammed into by future epics of this type time and again, and yet, outside of what would go on to become conventions, this film does most of what you'd expect, with a predictable narrative, storytelling style, dialogue, and, for that matter, portrayal of Ancient Rome.

The plot is still based on a subversion of fairy tale tropes, in this case with the bad guys defying narrative convention and wanting their «happily ever after».

You turn your back completely on dramatic convention, narrative arcs, and story through - lines.

Even eschewing the conventions of three act arc is an increasingly rare bird on screen these days, let alone relying on a sole lead to carry the entire movie on her shoulders, but she's refreshingly well - adjusted for someone tasked with bearing such narrative responsibility.

«Last Flag Flying» ultimately errs on the side of convention, and it's easy to tell when Linklater's digressive, hangout style clashes with the demands of the narrative.

It has the same freewheeling energy as «Go,» as well as the emphasis on being unmoored from typical narrative convention.

Filmmakers who prided themselves on making alternative narratives, different from the Hollywood convention, rang eccentric variations on those traditions.

The idea of «fundamental British values» feeds into broader narratives of «Britishness» which played a significant role in the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union and Conservatives» call for a British Bill of Rights to replace the protection offered by the European Convention on Human Rights, under the Human Rights Act.

Based on the principle that the primary purpose of grammar instruction is to improve student writing, this grammar program teaches the conventions of standard English and takes students through the complete writing process as they write arguments, informative / explanatory texts, and narratives.

It's an interesting attempt to tie RPG levelling together with nonlinear narrative conventions, but we're desperate to play it for ourselves now, especially after such a lengthy development cycle — not to mention a release date on the near horizon.

However, Dishonored 2 manages to be excellent in spite of its disappointing antagonist and a narrative that often falls back on video game storytelling conventions.

It's a compelling meta - narrative on gaming conventions and experiences.

Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.

Exploring the conventions and rhetoric of the images in the mass media, operating both on the gallery wall and the printed page in poster, book and magazine form, Burgin revels in straddling the boundaries between «visual art» and «theory», «image» and «narrative», in a way that makes reader and text interact, work together and create constant and engaged dialogue.

Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan will present a solo performance based on a monologue that takes the form of a shaggy dog story; a long rambling tale that to some extent follows the conventions of a narrative joke.

On a formal level Shonibare's use of repetition and the lack of dialogue forgo the conventions of mainstream film and those associated with so - called realist narrative.