Sentence examples for cinematic discourse from inspiring English sources
Andrew O'Hehir in Salon lamented the death not of film per se but of "film culture," a ghostly realm of serious cinematic discourse that flourished sometime in the past — in the art-house '60s, the New Hollywood '70s or the indie '80s and '90s — but definitely not anymore.
The term "film noir" has come down to us as a product of a subordinate strain of French criticism, different from the one that came to dominate cinematic discourse with the concept of auteurism, as well as to dominate filmmaking itself through the innovations of the New Wave.
Much of the best modern French art, whether literary or cinematic, channels that discourse into artistic form.
Yet the movie itself, for all its cinematic references (Swinton discourses blankly on "The Lady from Shanghai"), seems impatient with the need to tell a narrative at all, as if its secret wish were to be a photography exhibit, or an album of half-connected songs.
What a difference four years make in the discourse of hope and change and the course of cinematic urbanism.
1 hour 17 minutes; not rated Raoul Martinez and Joshua van Praag's cinematic lecture "The Lottery of Birth" belongs to that breed of discourse that suggests that if you patiently and succinctly outline why everything's awful, change can happen.
These filmmakers are distinguished not only by their attention to the language that's spoken in their films but by the very sense of discourse that gives rise to a particular and personal sense of cinematic form.
