Each is a marvel of formal, narrative and psychological compression.
Instead of a formal narrative, a succession of news reports of a genuine Martian invasion interrupts and finally takes over from a programme of dance music.
Like the canal journey, it will feature no voiceover or formal narrative, but both will have occasional on-screen information telling viewers what they are hearing or seeing.
Second, related but more abstract, it is a formal narrative that follows a single artifact through scores of permutations, in terms of material, technique, sensibility and taste, proving once more the revelatory power of highly focused examinations of visual culture.
The exhibition does give a hint of what was exciting about Haring: how much formal, narrative and allegorical mileage he could get out of a relatively limited but cannily controlled cartoon language.
The movie gave a fresh confidence to Woody and a generation of solipsistic stand-up comics and it created a new genre, what we might call 'the relationship picture', that dispensed with formal narrative.
Concert pianists, for example, can perform a 45 minute piece with 30,000 individual notes, that have to be performed in an absolutely particular order, with rhythmical and dynamic variability, passionately creating an emotional and formal narrative, from memory, live on stage.
Identified risk factors were summarized using formal narrative synthesis techniques alongside a random effects meta-analysis.
Following recommendations provided by Rogers and colleagues and Popay and coworkers on the conduct of narrative synthesis in systematic reviews [ 34, 35], we conducted a staged formal narrative synthesis of candidate risk factors alongside a random-effects meta-analysis.
The scoring system that was used adheres closely to formal narrative structure and has been used with many children older than those in the current sample, so the age of the current sample may explain their lower performance in these measures.
