The innovative narrative and gameplay transformed interactive entertainment forever.
Postmodern techniques, constructed largely in the late 1960s and 1970s, included use of interior monologues, radically stream-of-consciousness narrative, fragmentation, varying narrative points of view, neologisms, innovative narrative strategies, and frequent lack of causality.
The LA-based company launched its "Make Everyday Splendid" student film competition in an effort to show that "innovative narrative and imagination can truly connect people" -- especially via the talent of young filmmakers.
That's maybe not a bad idea, considering that the film's less-than-innovative narrative once again centers on the noble Autobots trying to foil the Decepticons' plan for world conquest, with the hapless Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) serving his traditional role as the beanbag tossed around by the warring factions.
The enthusiasm prompted by Defoe's best novels demonstrated the growing readership for innovative prose narrative.
They introduced an innovative parallel narrative about two (fictional) actors having an affair while working on the film, a self-referential device that echoed Fowles's literary stylistics.
There is "Travelogues," a witty, technologically innovative, multimedia narrative made of changing images on a row of backlighted screens, created by the architectural design team of Diller + Scofidio.
"London/Wales," on view here through July 14, is now a book, too (Scalo); on its pages as on the walls, Mr. Frank's innovative, elliptical narrative mode makes it plain why he would soon decide it was impossible to make a single, definitive photograph.
At this weekend's conference, it was clear that in journalism, good stories (even at considerable lengths) still rule, whether in books, newspapers, magazine, web-based publications, podcasts, or on innovative digital narrative platforms.
The innovative work at Narrative Science raises the broader issue of whether such applications of artificial intelligence will mainly assist human workers or replace them.
But, heavily in debt to both the West Wing and the British original House of Cards, the Netflix show has always been less innovative in its narrative than in its distribution.
