The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, wherein individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.

From dusk on into the night, the passage of time and the darkening sky that proceeds Marlow's narrative serves as a preamble to the atmosphere and tone for the events described within his upcomming tale.

In German filmmaking in the 1910s and 1920s, one can observe tone, meaning, and narrative information conveyed through mise-en-scène.

The fourth ( chapters 26 – 28 ) flashes back to the origins and growth of Milo's syndicate, with the fifth part ( chapter 28 – 32 ) returning again to the narrative " present " but keeping to the same tone of the previous four.

Although this volume is notable for featuring imagined histories by serious historians, the histories are presented in narrative form ( in most cases with a fairly whimsical tone ) without any analysis of the reasoning behind these scenarios, so they fall short of modern standards for serious counterfactual history and are closer to the fictional alternate history genre.

" These literary passes at contemporaneity are out of keeping with the biblical tone Mr. Buechner sustains, and with his faithful adherence to the original narrative.

As recently as 2008, magical realism in literature has been defined as "... a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the ' reliable ' tone of objective realistic report, designating a tendency of the modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies of fable, folk tale, and myth while maintaining a strong contemporary social relevance.

Franck wrote the delicately evocative Les Eolides, following it with the narrative Le chasseur maudit and the piano-and-orchestral tone poem Les Djinns, conceived in much the same manner as Liszt's Totentanz.

While the painterly handling of the works inspired comparison to Impressionism, and the emotional tone suggested a narrative more akin to genre painting, specifically Degas's Interior, the documentary realism of the Camden Town paintings was without precedent in British art.

The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic ( with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative ), and the canvas is very broad.

English composer Ernest Austin set the whole story as a huge narrative tone poem for solo organ, with optional 6-part choir and narrator, lasting approximately 2½ hours.

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

The novel uses a third-person narrative in the present tense with a somber tone reminiscent of a " low-level post-apocalypticism ".

Page and Schoen ’ s most challenging project was a new recording of Gordon Jenkins narrative tone poem Manhattan Tower ( recorded September 1956 ).

For example, a soft vocal tone is used both for character illustration in a narrative song and for personal songs in private settings.

The Space Odyssey series combines several science-fiction narrative conventions with a metaphysical tone.

This is not an unusual moral for a story in children books, but Van Allsburg's chilling characterization of the man brings a frightening tone to the narrative.

It was considered a strange, ungainly hybrid of Mahler and Stravinsky — too long, too broad-gestured in narrative and overly emotional in tone.

Güntekin's narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realistic tone.

In one passage, Dickens shifts from his authorial narrative voice into a formalized, almost epic tone while describing the work of an unremarkable bureaucrat ; his intent is to parody the self-importance and vainglory of the bureaucrat's position.

In this instance the conflict is between the factual narrative and the biting hyperbole of the new, epic / formalistic tone.

Ultimately, the novel has a rich imagination achieved by its rhythmic tone, narrative technique, and fascinating character creation, making it a thematic quarry, where the trivial and anecdotal and the historic and political are combined.

A comedy of errors is a narrative work ( often a play ) that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

Edmonds reported to the CID that, " The general tone of Bean's narrative is deplorable from the Imperial standpoint.

These were the key discoveries that made all non-live or non live-on-videotape narrative motion pictures and television possible — that shots ( in this case whole scenes since each shot is a complete scene ) can be photographed at widely different locations over a period of time ( hours, days or even months ) and combined into a narrative whole.

Some, such as Red vs. Blue and The Strangerhood, follow narrative conventions of television situational comedy.

After Clan Undead's 1997 work Operation Bayshield built on the earliest Quake movies by introducing narrative conventions of linear media and sketch comedy reminiscent of the television show Saturday Night Live, the New-York-based ILL Clan further developed the genre in machinima through works including Apartment Huntin ' and Hardly Workin '.

The defining feature that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Albert Moran, is " that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative.

This is the most significant distinction between US daytime soap operas and other forms of US television drama, which generally allow for narrative time to pass, off-screen, between the scenes depicted.

Voice-over ( also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary ) is a production technique where a voice that is not part of the narrative ( non-diegetic ) is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations.

American television in the 2000s saw the sharp increase in popularity of reality television, with numerous competition shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor and The Apprentice attracting large audiences, as well as documentary or narrative style shows such as Big Brother, The Hills, The Real Housewives, Cheaters, among many others.

While these shows continued to incorporate the broad range of television parodies the show was known for, they also had a strong narrative thread which set the show apart from other sketch comedy shows of the time.

Although " The Replacement " sets up its narrative as an evil twin television narrative trope, its catch is that both Xanders are in fact the real Xander.

A narrative is a constructive format ( as a work of speech, writing, song, film, television, video games, photography or theatre ) that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events.

A series finale refers to the last installment of a series with a narrative presented through mediums such as television, film and literature.

In a broadcast system ( television ), journalists or reporters are also involved with editing the video material that has been shot alongside their research, and in working on the visual narrative of the story.

Previous research suggests that the realism of television narratives in combination with individual-level " transportability ," or the ability to adopt a less critical stance toward a narrative, might facilitate cultivation effects ( e. g., Bilandzic & Busselle, 2008 ).

For the performing arts ( theater, dance, opera ), and media ( television, movies and DVD ), description is a form of audio-visual translation, using the natural pauses in dialogue or between critical sound elements to insert narrative that translates the visual image into a sense form that is accessible to millions of individuals who otherwise lack full access to television and film.

Lacking the lavish production values and visual spectacle of its Hollywood equivalents, Elstree Calling is now something of a curio item interesting chiefly for two reasons: Alfred Hitchcock ( then contracted to BIP ) was one of several directors employed on the production ; and the film is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television ( the linking narrative concerns a television broadcast of the revue, some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions ).

However, these crossovers can happen on dramatic television, such as when Blue Peter provided narrative exposition on The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Ahtila explores questions of identity and group relations through her use of narrative conventions derived from film, television and advertising.