Sentences with phrase «own narrative conventions»

Or perhaps more accurately: he left the cinema of the time — all perverted and gnarled by narrative convention as it was — and headed for uncharted territory.

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».

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

While never the most conventional screenwriter to begin with («Pulp Fiction» is a sprawling, ambitious jigsaw puzzle, for one), in recent years Tarantino's screenplays have pushed the envelope further, eschewing most cinematic narrative conventions, with his movies becoming more like filmed novels that don't bother with traditional structure.

Tarantino movies are so cherished these days that they have become their own form of event movie, and so, the writer / director has seemingly earned the right to do whatever he pleases, narrative conventions be damned.

Indeed, this is a film that comprehensively challenges traditional narrative conventions.

I admit to a longstanding fondness for the narrative convention of a big talker paired with a silent sufferer; for further research, see Henry Fonda and James Stewart in The Cheyenne Social Club and Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in Fargo.

To bind these themes into a melancholy love story about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) who has a brief affair with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), Mr. Resnais commissioned a screenplay from the writer Marguerite Duras, then one of the emerging stars of the «nouveau roman» movement, which was challenging literary 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.

The best of the Mexican studio films, (or perhaps more exactly, the films made for a Mexican audience) are the ones in which Buñuel's personality, interests and wit have freer reign within the constraints of narrative convention.

Arnold avoids most narrative conventions.

Set in Gillan's own hometown of Inverness, the film uses the tragic history of the Scottish Highlands (which has the highest suicide rate in the U.K.) to spin out an intimate coming of age tale, bolstered by Gillan's dark sense of humor and a firm understanding of how to play with narrative conventions.

There is a sense that he is toying with the accoutrements of wealth; dangling narrative conventions in front of our eyes in order to wreak havoc through a devious parlour trick hidden behind them.

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

They have been familiarized with basic narrative conventions since the earliest stories they have heard, and this familiarity is reinforced with every movie or sitcom they watch.

Meg solves her friend's dilemma by suggesting she push her car into the river, signaling that even narrative convention in this book can contain a fair dose of surprise.

Even memory turns out to be subject to its own narrative conventions, and so the truth of experiences as we having them does not match what we later believe them to have been.

That being said, I think it is silly and kind of childish to expect to write a book like Goon Squad, which is idiosyncratic, does not follow a lot of the narrative conventions we've come to expect from contemporary novels, is not straightforward — I think one can't do all that and expect to be loved by everyone.»

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.

The Pyes» artistic output spans photography, film, performance, video, and installation while acknowledging the profound influences of surrealism in film, narrative conventions in painting, 19th and early 20th century portraiture, and conceptual approaches to subject matter.

Narrative conventions such as climax, conflict, resolution, and cause and effect were disregarded and dismantled, reflecting the reality of the human condition and the element of chance.

This group — ranging from classic Untitled Film Stills of the late 1970s to untitled «prosthetic» works of the 1990s — privileges specific instances in which Sherman adopts or stages — through the collision of multiple photographic, cinematic, and narrative conventions — heightened states of emotional distress and psychological anxiety.

Using armatures in the forms of giants and angels that convey both human and supernatural energies, he abandons standard narrative conventions in favor of an exploration of materials, processes, and structures.

In his work he often combines elements of reality with fiction, reassessing historical and narrative conventions and questioning systems of knowledge and interpretation.

Stories of origin, trauma, and desire mutate into one another, forming blended genres that confound expectations and disrupt narrative conventions.

Anne Sherwood Pundyk I love the work of the post-impressionist painter Edouard Manet for both the magic of his paint handling and the way he challenged narrative conventions.

It was written with all the narrative conventions of a work of fiction — and received some defiant votes from our judges — but it was too deeply identified as journalism to be considered for our list.

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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.

Rather, their creative interpretations of the text are influenced by the hermeneutical conventions of Second Temple Judaism, which allow for quite a bit of «play» with the narrative texts.

Though the HHS mandate represents an expansion of government power into the heart of many religious institutions, efforts to resist this expansion were portrayed by HHS Secretary Sebelius as a «war against women,» a label that has stuck and a narrative that the Democratic party during its Convention sought to make a dominant theme of the campaign» it would seem, with considerable success.

The Bible contains all sorts of linguistic conventions like poetry, historical narrative, figures of speech, hyperbole, metaphor, etc..

Walker advocates a sexuality purged of every last human convention, but humans tend to find it hard to relate to a narrative so devoid of anything like shame, dignity, or even privacy.

Modifying the conventions of conversion narratives, the book acknowledges Bush's youthful indiscretions but downplays the nature and severity of his sins.

When absence would be too conspicuous or odd, like at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Cuomo danced along a line of fulfilling obligations without letting himself slide into narratives of 2016 ambition.

The exact narrative a gubernatorial opponent would want to draft is that Albany remains broken under a two - term incumbent; this past weekend, potential Cuomo challenger Chris Gibson said in a radio interview with Bill Samuels that he supports a convention because «we clearly need reform in this state.»

Team Trump will be trying to right the listing convention ship after the plagiarism mishap of Melania Trump's big speech last night, which dominated the news cycle today and was definitely NOT the narrative the campaign was looking for.

After he defeated Teachout at the Working Families Party convention in May, Cuomo had a brusque assessment of the drawn - out process and those who claimed damage to his narrative or brand.

In 2012, he went to the Democratic convention in Charlotte but stayed as far from the spotlight as possible, actively working to discourage the narrative of Cuomo the 2016 contender.

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 fact that the film can mock the conventions of its sister X-Men movies in one breath and exploit the worst narrative crutches of comics in another (look up «Women in Refrigerators» afterward, if you want to have a really bad day) indicates the film is inherently conflicted with itself.

April's To the Wonder already screened at TIFF and Venice last year, where it was booed by some and praised by others as Malick continued to stretch the conventions of narrative filmmaking.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

The Renata storyline is one of those signs of the Wet Hot creators» attention to convention, its story beats lending narrative rigor to the more free - flowing hijinks at Camp Firewood.

The screenwriters have established a reputation for churning out rom - coms that resonate with contemporary audiences, but do not stray far from the tried - and - true plot formulas and conventions which have earned the sub-genre fans since... well, the early days of narrative filmmaking, to be honest.

In You Disappear, Fog breaks with Hollywood convention and gives us a challenging narrative, opting for a scientific framework to reflect upon the...

Bill and Turner Ross are documentary filmmakers who intriguingly blur the line between standard conventions of documentary and narrative feature techniques...

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.

It's also one of the oddest movies I have seen in a while, both adopting the conventions of its genre and completely ignoring them, refusing to follow narrative expectations.