Sentences with phrase «traditional narrative conventions»

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

Not exact matches

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.

If his last film, the atmospheric, if claustrophobically nondescript saga of love and woe To the Wonder was the acclaimed filmmaker's attempt to pick away at cinematic convention, it is with this one that he abandons traditional narrative constructs entirely.

With his 2004 debut, Primer, Shane Carruth challenged the long - held conventions of the sci - fi genre, taking the traditional time - travel narrative and twisting it into a dense examination of human relationships.

Photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier uses the conventions of social documentary to probe and upend traditional narratives of urban growth and the triumph of industry.

Rooted in the literary - with particular nods to the conventions of horror and romance - and yet aborted from traditional narratives, his work seeks to explore the corporeal and tactile through high spec digital technologies, highlighting their deadness and flatness as jarring against the human story.