Though film noir is often identified with a visual style, unconventional within a Hollywood context, that emphasizes low-key lighting and unbalanced compositions, films commonly identified as noir evidence a variety of visual approaches, including ones that fit comfortably within the Hollywood mainstream.

The BBC series Coupling made extensive use of split screen as one of several techniques that are unconventional for TV series, often to a humorous effect.

Scorsese notes in his documentary that in contrast to directors who often become more restrained and more conservative stylistically as their careers advance, Rossellini became more and more unconventional and was constantly experimenting with new styles and technical challenges.

Such struggles often involve strategies and tactics of unconventional warfare, the weaker combatants attempting to use strategy to offset deficiencies in quantity or quality.

His buildings are often characterized by being spacious and exposed, mixing volumes and empty space to create unconventional patterns and often propped up by piloti.

# Building appropriate, often unconventional airframe designs and aerostructures

Her methods are unconventional by kingdom standards, for example forgoing the use of leeches and instead using alcohol to " the ill humours which can infect a wound ," but are more often than not successful.

Her film choices were often unconventional ; she sought roles as manipulators and killers in an era when actresses usually preferred to play sympathetic characters, and she excelled in them.

However, progress has been slow, and earth shelter construction is often viewed by architects, engineers, and the public alike as an unconventional method of building.

In Germany, Einstürzende Neubauten mixed metal percussion, guitars, and unconventional instruments ( such as jackhammers and bones ) in stage performances that often damaged the venues in which they played.

Performance artists often challenge the audience to think in new and unconventional ways, break conventions of traditional arts, and break down conventional ideas about " what art is ".

Dada provided a significant progenitor with the unconventional performances of poetry, often at the Cabaret Voltaire, by the likes of Richard Huelsenbeck and Tristan Tzara.

Erickson is noted for his often unconventional approach to psychotherapy, such as described in the book Uncommon Therapy, by Jay Haley, and the book Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook, by Milton H. Erickson and Ernest L. Rossi ( 1979, New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc .).

It often requires thinking in unconventional ways with given constraints in mind ; sometimes it also involves lateral thinking.

Known as o Bruxo ( the Sorcerer ), Pascoal often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children's toys, and animals, as well as keyboards, button accordion, melodica, saxophone, guitar, flute, voice, various brass and folkloric instruments.

Smaller-scale rides often feature the same sorts of simple animation and sounds that have been used since the early days of the genre, while more ambitious projects can feature complex audio-animatronics, special effects, and unconventional ride vehicles.

Guerrilla marketing is an advertising strategy in which low-cost unconventional means ( graffiti, sticker bombing, flash mobs ) are utilized, often in a localized fashion or large network of individual cells, to convey or promote a product or an idea.

Jandek often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music, often using an open and unconventional chord structure.

Chögyam Trungpa's style of teaching was often unconventional.

Kirstie Blair states that the suppression of emotion in Procter's work makes the narrative poems all the more powerful, and Gill Gregory argues that Procter's poetry often explores female sexuality in an unconventional way, while as often voicing anxiety about sexual desires.

The office is not a particularly powerful one, and has little direct impact on policy-making, but Surgeons General are often vocal advocates of unconventional or unpopular health policies.

Other writers that emerged in this period, and are often treated as part of the movement, include the poets Edwin Muir and William Soutar, the novelists Neil Gunn, George Blake, Nan Shepherd, A J Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the playwright James Bridie.

He says that the “ verbosity of the Plautine prologues has often been commented upon and generally excused by the necessity of the Roman playwright to win his audience .” However, in both Menander and Plautus, word play is essential to their comedy.

Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched Kulmus ( 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762 ) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy.

Disclosing his thoughts on French theatre and his personal perspective as a playwright, he said that the perception of his work was often misguided:

The screenplay and the stage play on which it was based were both written by English playwright Frederick Knott, whose work often focused on women who innocently become the potential victims of sinister plots.

Writer, philosopher and playwright Albert Camus, native of Algiers, often associated with existentialism, tried unsuccessfully to persuade both sides to at least leave civilians alone, writing editorials against the use of torture in Combat newspaper.

* Tim Fountain ( born 1967 ), playwright and author, whose plays ( often centered on sex or genitalia ) have often been the cause of controversy.

The relationship between the puppeteer and the puppet-maker is often assumed to be similar to that between an actor and a playwright.

Thebes is often used in Athenian dramas as a city in which proper boundaries and identities are not maintained, allowing the playwright to explore themes like incest, murder, and hubris in a safe setting.

Theatre Workshop also championed the work of Irish playwright Brendan Behan, and Littlewood is often rumoured to have a significant role in his work.

Christopher Ferdinand Durang ( born January 2, 1949 ) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.

On December 31, 1925, Hellman married Arthur Kober, a playwright and press agent, although they often lived apart.

Other writers that emerged in this period, and are often treated as part of the movement, include the poets Edwin Muir and William Soutar, the novelists Neil Gunn, George Blake, Nan Shepherd, A J Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the playwright James Bridie.

Nichols is often considered an especially autobiographical playwright, and has chronicled much of the background to his plays in his published autobiography and diaries.

MacGowan has often cited the 19th-century Irish poet James Clarence Mangan and playwright Brendan Behan as influences.

Carla Harryman ( born January 11, 1952 ) is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets.

Cao Yu (, September 24, 1910 — December 13, 1996 ), born as Wan Jiabao ( T: 萬家寶, S: 万家宝, P: Wàn Jiābǎo ), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century.

Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst, more widely known as Hilda Hilst ( 1930 – 2004 ) was a Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist, whose fiction and poetry were generally based upon delicate intimacy and often insanity and supernatural events.

Gil Vicente is often seen as the father of Portuguese theatre-he was the leading Portuguese playwright in the 16th century.

Its occupational use was often combined with other words such as wheelwright or playwright.

Kālidāsa is often considered to be the greatest playwright in Sanskrit literature, and one of the greatest poets in Sanskrit literature, whose Recognition of Shakuntala and Meghaduuta are the most famous Sanskrit plays.

In the second half of the fifteenth century stands in the field of dialect literature Gian Giorgio Allioni of Asti, poet, playwright and writer who knowing poetry in French and Italian, wrote several farces in dialect, expressing " an Astezan " and providing a vivid picture of customs and life of the period and the Italian theater of the sixteenth century, often steeped in satire and mockery.