To set up the existential quandaries to come, the film uses a framing device only hinted at in the novel.
Lazar uses architecture as a framing device, with mirrors and reflective glass often joining images of quiet, isolated moments with topsy-turvy city views.
Given the influence of Baldwin on my work, given this being the year of Donald Trump, coming off the first black president, and Baldwin having a renaissance, I wanted to reach back and use him as a framing device.
I remembered a ludicrous audition for a yoghurt advertisement I went to a few years ago, that involved me swooning at a handsome, strange man who'd been waiting inside my fridge in order to pass me a yoghurt, and I used this as a framing device for the more serious stuff.
The second series uses Polaroid photos as a framing device, and has the tagline "The truth is developing".
Much more than Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter," which used the tsunami as a framing device for one of its tales of supernatural obsession, "The Impossible" plunges the audience into the catastrophe and then immerses us in the panic, grief and disorientation of the aftermath.
Kramer was binge-watching The West Wing and fortuitously encountered a syllabus from a University of Georgia class that used the show as a framing device.
Documentarian Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer) uses this recent production as a framing device to tell the story of Fela Ransome Kuti, the pioneering forefather of Afrobeat, who died in 1997 at the age of 58.
Ballinger used that Bari incident as a framing device to raise questions about the history of migration in Italy's colonial Empire and the oft-neglected chapter of Italy's imperial presence in Albania.
The chapters in this intriguing debut novel are called "Sessions," so Ms. Stevens can use Annie's therapy sessions as a framing device.
