Sentences with phrase «storytelling traditions»

This technique is a combination of the old storytelling tradition and new technology.

The Forbidden Room (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD, Netflix)-- Canadian iconoclast Guy Maddin has been making strange, surreal films that evoke the images and storytelling traditions of silent movies for decades.

Fan fiction on the internet is the manifestation of a hybrid, more fluid and nuanced understanding of story and storytelling: drawing on oral storytelling traditions, and is both performative and written.

A noble failure from a noteworthy filmmaker, Joseph Cedar's «Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer» — the unofficial winner of this year's «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» Award for the most fanciful title — mines a classic storytelling tradition in order to spin a darkly comic parable that often feels as unkempt and intolerable as its title character.

Storytelling traditions vary all over the world, yet have many things in common.

Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a «poetic cinema» indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.

It's the tap on the shoulder the increasingly derivative Hollywood needs, a gentle, almost soft - spoken, reminder that iconic storytelling traditions are born on foundations of greatness for good reason.

Combining her Igbo and Tamil heritage, Emezi draws on rich storytelling traditions.

A dramatic, atmospheric novel in a grand storytelling tradition, The Sisters Mortland is beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad, and often dazzlingly funny.

This book explores the unique storytelling tradition that characterizes Latin American literature and has influenced many contemporary artists around the world.

The combined works in the exhibit represent a multigenerational and trans - Atlantic exploration into the origins of African and African American storytelling traditions that resonate throughout the diaspora.

Mark making, ancient storytelling traditions, the ebb and flow of life, and the enduring, exquisite beauty of nature are all encountered and reflected upon in Twombly's enigmatic compositions.

He renamed the museum, suggesting with the use of the word «narrative» that it would be an institution dedicated to exploring how filmmakers and artists alike rely on various storytelling traditions.

She has mastered the remarkable storytelling tradition handed down to her and has the unique ability to inspire audiences on the weighty issues of policy, politics, and action.

The culinary, musical, and storytelling traditions of the region are unique cultural byproducts that emanated from the deeply rooted structures of class, race, and economics that have existed for generations.

Two thoughts I hope you can comment on: the Maori culture in the past would preserve the ritual tattooing of their chieftains by preserving their heads after death — the idea of a permanent archive and the furtherance of an oral storytelling tradition that film represents for us in modernity.

Whereas Hurston's novel takes its form from the storytelling traditions of black culture, The Color Purple is more consciously literary.

This stems in part from their tight - knit communities and the rituals and storytelling traditions that have helped them weather centuries of persecution, says Jan Kizilhan, a German psychologist of Yezidi descent at Baden - Württemberg Cooperative State University in Villingen - Schwenningen, Germany.

It resembles John Sayles's brilliant The Secret of Roan Inish not only in subject, but also in the understanding that film has the potential to be the most cogent extrapolation of the oral storytelling tradition.

Smarter Schools will carry on a storytelling tradition as innovation spreads through classrooms in Ohio.

What might these examples suggest about the purpose and significance of a storytelling tradition?

Ethan Canin writes in the storytelling tradition of Richard Russo: a slow, detailed, fully realized, and gratifying portrait of small - town America.

Campers will create art which draws on the origins, traditions and art of the Caddo Indians; the storytelling tradition of the cowboy; the abstract sculpture of contemporary artist, Frank Stella; and the works of American Southwest artists including Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustav Bauman, The Taos School and Peter Hurd.

In his work, Cavalieri updates techniques and the storytelling tradition created by medieval stained glass artisans.

Examples include the sewn and woven images of artist and former professional skateboarder Tony Cox, Philippine artist Brenda Fajardo's works using indigenous materials that recall her country's visual and oral storytelling traditions, and Christina Forrer's tapestries blending elements from Swiss folklore and historical European tapestry with contemporary pop and street culture.