She also ruthlessly purges her movies of the kind of psychological expression and narrative exposition that most filmmakers depend on.
A brightly painted abstract sculpture, it is a composition governed by laws of mathematics rather than emotional expression or narrative content.
When I relax and trust both my instinct and my natural self-expression, the narrative doesn't need all those adjectives, my intention succeeds on the page.
Those robots — and I should note that the film makes a case for the inappropriateness of that word — are an expression of pure narrative anarchy, but they are also metaphors, as such creations tend to be.
In folk art, this votive urge found expression in small narrative paintings (only occasionally large, as in Mexico) depicting an accident, illness, or other disaster from which the victim was saved by the intervention of a saint or the Madonna.
And while Janacek's First Quartet is wrapped in layers of text and subtext, being music based on literature based on music (Tolstoy's story "The Kreutzer Sonata"), it also cuts through to an almost operatic expression of the narrative, in which Janacek cannot have missed echoes of his own dire inability to express love in the real world.
Her over-all argument was simple: though there is a tendency to think of the computer as "the enemy of the book," it is in fact "the child of print culture," a powerful representational medium of its own that promises to continue the evolution of storytelling and "reshape the spectrum of narrative expression".
In her own slyly and unnoisily subversive fashion, Munro has broken new ground in terms of her subject matter, which is often close to raunchy in its sexual frankness, and in her allegiance to the short-story form as a vehicle for sustained narrative expression.
Regardless of the aims and beliefs of any one individual using the tag, Gamergate is an expression of a narrative that certain video-game fans have chosen to believe: that the types of games they enjoy may change or disappear in the face of progressive criticism and commentary, and that the writers and journalists who cover the industry coördinate their message and skew it to push an agenda.
Photomontage became their currency for emancipation and narrative expression.
