Sentences with phrase «traditional narrative forms»

Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms: social documentary, tableaux, self - portrait, and oral history.

And to the extent that we have traditional narrative forms, where there is a story that the creative director made, this kind of hero works brilliantly.

Beginning life as Maddin's interactive Seances project, in which the director channelled the spirits of lost silent movies through improvised live happenings, the film eschews traditional narrative form to instead seduce its audience through its poetic visuals, compelling ideas and inspiring performances from the likes of Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Mathieu Almaric and Udo Keir.

We don't want to diminish the traditional narrative form so much as we want authors to have the ability to add to it,» said Heather Wied, Marketing Director for Pubsoft.

Not exact matches

A myth is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, [2] although, in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story.

I use traditional metalsmithing skills, mixing silver, copper, and minerals, as well as Murano and artisan glass, to create forms and ornament inspired by nature and narratives.

Or he could have captured Snow's life in more of a narrative form had he chosen to write a traditional biography.

Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling old books) Gatten's films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography, and poetry with experiments in cinematic forms and narrative structures.

Refn's latest film, Only God Forgives, reunites him with Drive's star, Ryan Gosling, but it moves even further away from traditional narrative and into a near abstract, near hallucinogenic, near nihilistic subversion of traditional narrative and with it, the usual visceral, emotional, and intellectual pleasures associated with that form.

The plot frustrates traditional romantic narrative form at every turn.

It covers the following lesson objectives: • become very familiar with... traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics • begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark... • make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done • write sentences by: saying out loud what they are going to write about; composing a sentence orally before writing it; sequencing sentences to form short narratives; re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense • read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher.

It covers the following lesson objectives: • form capital letters • use a capital letter for names of people, places,... • become very familiar with... traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics • participate in discussions,... role play,... • make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done • sequencing sentences to form short narratives

Due to the popularity of this post since May, in October I wrote about strategies for effective narrative writing — especially for personal statements — that avoid the traditional five - paragraph form.

Atavist juxtaposes various digital forms that lies in the space between long narrative magazine articles and traditional books and e-books — a bit like music singles in iTunes — Atavist presents stories longer and in more depth than typical magazines, less expensive and more dynamic than traditional books.

Atavist juxtaposes various digital forms that lies in the space between long narrative magazine articles and traditional books and e-books.

To me, a National Book Award winner ought to be pushing the novel form in some way and Whitehead certainly did that with the railroad made literal and the story transcending traditional time boundaries while still having a linear narrative.

In other forms of narrative nonfiction, it's thought that only with traditional advances on royalties can the research be afforded and the books be written.

Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas marry appreciation of these traditional forms of representation to a deep understanding of contemporary American culture to create insightful works that disrupt historic narratives and read canonic art history against the grain.

A sphere made of colored strips of fabric torn from a plethora of unraveled paintings, The Painting Ball performs the undoing of painting in its traditional form to mark a tabula rasa moment that inscribes Saban's project firmly into the canonical narrative of painting's many deaths and resurrections.

In 1957, Farmanfarmaian returned to her native country, learning traditional art forms including Turkoman jewellery, reverse - glass painting and coffee - house painting — a popular form of Iranian narrative art.

Loosely constructed shapes and unwieldy textures combine in Franklin's work to form a style that is uniquely untethered by traditional narrative.

Stemming from his interest in traditional narrative formats, his work often researches new forms of storytelling through visual and optical abstraction, rhythm and repetition, patterns and symbolism, text transmissions, color correspondences, and interrelationships of images and sound.

The conventional narrative applied to Turner holds that the artist emerged from his roots in traditional landscape painting with a new style, suffusing form in light to create fields of color verging on abstraction, hence his connection with Modernism.

The film documents a solitary Japanese mask - maker meticulously producing a set of six traditional Noh masks while simultaneously overlaying this visual narrative with a web of further narratives in the form of voiceover.

Stripped of overt narrative, his abstract forms are fabricated by hand, achieving a visible poetic harmony while offering subtle references to both the human form and to traditional cultures.

In the late 1960s, Dan Graham (American, born 1942) and Jeff Wall (born 1946) combined photographs with narrative texts and placed them in art galleries and publications to challenge traditional forms of display and the pristine aesthetics of the fine art print.

The focus of the work is Marshall «Äôs expansive narrative, Rythm Mastr (preliminary drawings of which were featured in his Season 1 segment), a story of love, vengeance, and redemption in the inner city, featuring African - American superheroes based on traditional African sculpture and stories, and realized in comic strip form.

Whereas traditional portraiture represented specific characters and narratives, Yiadom - Boakye's paintings present figures drawn form the artist's own imagination and memory outside time and place.

With the additive manner of both practices, More takes form through the lens of a feminist conversation, summoning a new narrative behind this traditional art form.

The Transylvania - born artist's site - specific exhibition at The Aldrich showcases her skill in traditional, labor intensive, hand - crafted book - making, and will take the form of a diorama, in which a series of cut - out panels will reveal layers of a hallucinatory narrative featuring fantasy worlds and idiosyncratic characters.

This traditional oral form inspired the region's cinema at its origins, as well as other modern narrative genres, and intersects in their work with archival footage assembled to represent contemporary history and engender new cultural forms of post-colonialisation.

Avoiding a didactic approach to storytelling, Beloufa interrupts and abstracts traditional forms of narrative.

Inspired by the traditional paper theaters of 19th century Europe, the artist has created her own version of the form, but uses it to stage narratives with a contemporary twists.

Inspired by the her research into the earliest forms of animation (like magical zoetropes and phenakistoscopes), Beveridge's aim was to, «see if it was possible to make the audience highly aware of the process behind animation as most traditional animation focuses solely on narrative.»

This form of giving evidence is relevant for native title hearings where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people might be more comfortable giving evidence through narrative or in the traditional practice of «storytelling».

Recently we are starting to see this oral tradition emerge across diverse disciplines and settings in multiple forms, including digital storytelling, photovoice, literature, poetry, traditional oral storytelling, theatre, and personal narrative, to name a few.