Not only did Cukor know how to shape a performance, he knew how to place it within the total structure — visual and narrative — of a film.
Despite continual manipulations of structure and narrative, this great writer of fiction has never been a great formalist.
Overlaying the Odysseyan wandering and spiraling of this narrative is a different kind of structure, specifically the tripartite structure of the narrative of Genesis that begins with creation, builds to catastrophic annihilation (the flood), and then moves on to the recreation or reconstruction of human society.
The results enable us to compare the way the activity is carried out, both in its conventional context and with the Pogo instruments, mainly along three main lines of investigation: the collective dimension, the use of space and the structure of the narrative.
That designation feels stodgily inaccurate, not only because the series is unburdened by a sense of its own seriousness but also because it feels descended as much from the films of Frederick Wiseman as it is from the rhythms and narrative structure of something like MTV's "16 and Pregnant".
The structure of the narrative defamiliarises the condition of slavery and the slave trade, gives it a shocking visibility.
It moves outside her, holding to the structure of her narrative without settling on a dramatic equivalent for her voice.
"It's not that many scenes, but within the structure of the narrative, it feels like much more.
But, he added, "The fundamental structure of the narrative and the overarching themes of the narrative are sound".
Munro's own contrarian streak is displayed in the structure of her narratives.
